About a generation ago, a charismatic preacher and self-proclaimed Jesus called James Warren Jones took about a thousand of his…
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Whenever someone brings up the point that the Western feminists, and a certain subset of the Western ‘skeptic’, ‘atheist’ sphere…
Jack has a great post over at Atheist Revolution about ‘black atheists’ groups. There are some things there I agree…
The fallacy of relative privation is an informal fallacy by which one compares the subject under discussion to something else…
This post is part of a series of guest posts on GPS by the graduate students in my Psychopathology course during Spring…
There’s a lot of really exciting work going on in genome comparisons. My recent review on the cats highlights some…
Myself and author James A. Lindsay were both involved in contributing chapters to John Loftus’s recent excellent addition to his…
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion by Sam Harris. Harris writes from a semi-Buddhist perspective, and he explores…
I’m posting a shortie today to apologize for my lack of posts lately. (Ha. How’s that for an inception-type…
Taking the endlessly fraught subject of global warming politics, I’ve come to realize that there’s the mirror image of the…