Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
There is an interesting news report about how the various forms of belief set up shop in San Diego’s Balboa Park at the weekends. Nestled amount the various competing ideas being promoted in this supermarket of beliefs you will now also find non-belief … and why not. Since all the daft beliefs are out there, … Read more
One day two young Mormon missionaries knock on performer Julia Sweeney’s door, and started her on a quest to completely rethink her own beliefs. In the end she made the transition from “believer” to “atheist”, so what happened and what was the thought process that carried her on this journey? Oh wait, before we go there, … Read more
Jennifer LeClaire is a news editor at Charisma, a “Christian” magazine with a “Christian Agenda” … can I say that, or have they already trademarked the word “agenda” when used in scare quotes? Anyway, she has written an article about the “Athiest Agenda” that perhaps warrants a few comments. It is positively drenched in hostility and … Read more
Katie Engelhart, a London-based writer, has gone with the following title for an article is Salon … Atheism starts its megachurch: Is it a religion now? Hang on a moment, Atheism is not a religion, and no there is no “Atheist Megachurch”, so what is going on here? It is of course a bit of media … Read more
Back in July two researchers at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga considered the idea that atheists and agnostics fell into distinct categories, so they conducted a study to find out what those categories were. From this they identified six different types (yes, I blogged about it before). It attracted rather a lot of attention at … Read more
One of the most popular apps around is YouVersion. This is a free Bible app that contains over 700 different translations and has been downloaded by 115 million people, so is perhaps one of the most popular apps out there. Well yes, so there are lots of religious people, but then you knew that anyway. Now … Read more