And again, way too much energy is being spent on deriving the least flattering interpretation of someone’s statements, and then describing that interpretation in...
Read MoreRon Lindsay, CFI President, today posted this interesting blog “On shunning fellow atheists and skeptics“. Why I find it interesting is not really because...
Read MoreWe can’t ignore the fact that persuasion becomes more difficult when your audience is pissed off. And the continuing focus on us vs. them rhetoric in the atheist...
Read MoreOne of the chapters in Bertrand Russell’s “Unpopular Essays” (1950) is “The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed”. In the essay, Russell criticises the tendency of those...
Read MoreRichard Mourdock is the latest in a sequence of Republican politicians to have said something offensive with regard to women and their rights over their own bodies. But when expressing outrage over the moral conservatism expressed by the likes of Mourdock, let’s try to be honest to the evidence – and not cherry-pick our examples to justify our prejudices.
Read MoreRebecca Watson’s article in Slate has (predictably) led to a flare-up of tempers in the battles that have raged since Elevatorgate. At some point, we’ll need to find a way out of this mess, and I’d suggest that doing so requires a little more temperance on all sides, and an increased willingness to listen without caring most for keeping score.
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