#atheism
# politics
Skeptical bloggers are debating whether to out a troll whose fabrications fueled Chris Mooney's anti-atheist stories.
# oddities
For some inexplicable reason, Nature decided to publish a paranoid parable about tyrannical New Atheists lobotomizing Christians into depression and loneliness.
# science
As a loud and proud New Agnostic, Ron Rosenbaum doesn't just not know how the universe came to be, he doesn't want to know what we've found out so far.
# oddities
The modern world needs blasphemy not just as abstract right, but being actively exercised when the occasion calls for it.
# oddities
The (Non)Prophet blog has a contest for the atheists least likely to offend religious zealots and whose identity is based on how accommodating to their beliefs they are.
# oddities
What happens when a preacher loses faith? They may have no choice but to keep preaching...
# politics
Just to answer the questions, no, I'm not interested in participating in the branding and sale of Atheism BrandTM Atheism...
# politics
Professor Massimo Pigliucci is trying to make a case for accommodating believers railing against science and fact-based education and discourse with some very flimsy arguments...
# evolution
According to David Scharfenberg, Ken Miller is the only sane, rational person in the debate about how evolution should be taught, a debate led almost exclusively by foaming-at-the-mouth irrational extremists on both sides.
# politics
This blog's creationist readers appear to need a reminder the criticizing their statements is not the same thing as disagreeing with a deity.
# politics
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels teaches a master class in mindless, empty, hostile zealotry and stringing together supposedly fear-inducing buzzwords.
# politics
Theologian Stephen Prothero would be happy to engage atheists. He'd just like them to be attractive ladies his age and type...
# politics
How do you cover a schism that doesn't actually exist? You whip one up from cherry-picked quotes and use them to stir up a tempest in a teacup.
# oddities
A theologian claims that the God of the Old Testament is just one deity who separated us from writhing, shapeless monsters. Don't expect his colleagues or mainstream believers to care much about his treatise.
# science
Everyone's least favorite science communicator, Chris Mooney, is once again trying to warp reality to fit his narrative.