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Walking in Merthyr Vale

Death and belonging

Posted on July 11th, 2011 by Alun

This is another post that’s being pulled from the draft folder. The first draft was written a couple of years ago. My grandfather had just died and on the day after the funeral something popped up in my RSS reader. It was a smug and rather vicious piece by a bishop about how atheism had [...]

The Negative Influence of PZ Myers

Posted on July 16th, 2009 by Alun

Does a supermassive blog illuminate or destroy? Photo (cc) Dana Berry. There’s a new flap going through a few Science blogs following the publication Unscientific America. One chapter of the book* argues that New Atheists in general and PZ Myers in particular are damaging science communication by being outspoken atheists. Religious people will flatly reject [...]

Well, someone needs therapy

Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Alun

Still too busy to blog and when I do return it won’t be here. Possibly back in late June. Someone posing as Creationist C. David Parsons went on a bit of a spree last night posting various homophobic comments across a number of blogs. They seemed to have a bit too high opinion of their [...]

Atheism with one god less doesn’t work

Posted on December 23rd, 2007 by Alun

Christian Atheism. Photo (cc) zorilla. The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, has spoken out this Christmas against fundamentalism, including fundamentalist atheists. It’s the kind of message I agree with, or at least I would if I knew any fundamentalist atheists. I don’t know any. Fair play to Dr Morgan, he doesn’t name any so [...]

The Atheist equivalent of Christian Rock

Posted on September 1st, 2007 by Alun

“I suppress a shudder at the prospect of an atheist equivalent of Christian rock. Please, no.” Heather @ Why Don’t You Blog? It’s not as bad as you might think. I’d argue that with lines like I needed a break when your book about dreams was taken, I needed to pray or see a priest [...]

Thoughts on The God Delusion

Posted on August 8th, 2007 by Alun

The God Delusion. Photo (cc) somefool. I bought this a while ago when it came out in paperback because Sainsbury’s had it on special offer. I’ve read it, but haven’t commented on it for a few reasons. Partly because I seem to have bought a faulty copy. The God Delusion is a vicious angry screed [...]

There may be no atheists in Vauxhalls but there was one in a Volkswagen

Posted on August 25th, 2006 by Alun

Mine wasn’t in such good condition. Photo by Andreas Reinhold. I’m tripping up over a lot of really quite vicious anti-atheist posts recently and it seems I’m not the only one. Via Coturnix comes the news that the tired line “There are no atheists in foxholes” has been brought out for a fresh airing, this [...]