Monthly Archives: February, 2008
It must be true, I read it on the internet
A lot of people think that way. How many “Urgent: Virus Alert” emails have you received from well-meaning relatives and friends that warn how clicking on a certain link will clean out your address book or erase your hard drive? Similar emails make the rounds every year. None have been fact-checked. Yet many of them [...]
Organizing atheists & free thinkers
One of the factors that makes religion attractive and atheism unattractive to many people is that atheism offers no community. Humans are social animals. Churches have long exploited this aspect of our humanity. I would wager that many theists place more value on their church membership than they do on the theological implications of belief.
A [...]
Positive or negative?
I been thinking lately.
Should I be satisfied with defining my beliefs in the negative (atheist), or should I make more of an effort to accentuate the positive aspects of my personal philosophy (free thinking)?
I don’t know that either viewpoint should be exclusive. But I am going to try to address my interests from a [...]
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