Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but …
Tag Archive: atheism
Dec 14 2011
Podcast Part II: Winning the War of Attrition
After we completed the main hour of the podcast, we continued our conversation and the guys over at “A Matter of Doubt” have been kind enough to put it up as a bonus clip. This is where we get into the things that I am most interested in, LGBT issues, argument, and humanism. I almost …
Dec 06 2011
A Matter of Doubt Podcast: Starring Yours Truly
A local very cool podcast about atheism and all things philosophy had me on to talk about atheist activism and the SC billboard campaign. It’s got my deconversion story, horror of childhood religion, and limited occurrences of me going “um, like”. If you’re into podcasts, you should give it a listen! I have my super sexy horrible cold voice …
Nov 24 2011
Columbia Coalition of Reason: Love Mail Part I
In honor of Thanksgiving, I’d like to share some of the thankful e-mails and comments we’ve gotten on the billboard. I’ll be honest, more than one of them made me tear up. There really are people out there who think their non-belief means that they have to be isolated. And now they don’t. FROM CHRISTIANS …
Nov 22 2011
Columbia Coalition of Reason Hate Mail: Part I
We sent out a press release this morning about the billboard, and by the afternoon we’d had coverage on some local websites and by tonight we’d had interviews on local TV. The comments on the news sites have been pretty negative, but the people actually contacting us have been very positive and grateful. I’ve collected …
Nov 21 2011
I Introduce The Columbia Coalition of Reason!
That’s right, Columbia SOUTH CAROLINA has TWO atheist billboards up in town! The billboards will be up through Thanksgiving, for the Carolina-Clemson football game, and into the month of December. Proud of little ol’ red Columbia, well done.
Nov 02 2011
Why “In God We Trust” is a Problem
During the Spanish Inquisition, Catholics would find Jews by looking to see who ate pork. They’d offer pork to people they suspected of being Jewish, and if they refused to eat it, they were arrested. Because in the 1400s the only real Spaniard was a Catholic Spaniard. There was a holy war aimed at getting …
Jul 16 2011
TAM Friday
First up this morning was a marginal breakfast. I don’t understand this — why do people put cooked fruit into things that don’t need cooked fruit. Cooked fruit is not chocolate. It does not make things better. It makes them measurably much worse. Croissants don’t need jelly on the inside. It’s gross. George Hrab opened …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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