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 [...]

I’ve been sat on this post for a couple of weeks. One reason for not putting it up is I’ve been busy and this post might annoy a few people. Kicking off a discussion and then ignoring it is impolite, so it has had to wait. Another reason is that it’s another post on whether [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

While I was writing the last post defending Hekate against atheists this video came up on Pharyngula from Coffeeghost. Clearly he’s a man unafraid of being threatened with a water pistol.

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m wary of copying blocks of text from books to blog, partly because if a book’s worth talking about it’s probably worth buying. The other reason is that it’s easy to lose the context of an argument. An example is below. This is the concluding section of A loophole for Torquemada? in Sam Harris’s book [...]