Today’s contribution comes from fellow FTBorg Dr. Richard Carrier Because I am an atheist… When I realized I was an atheist, I realized we needed godless and non-supernatural answers to important philosophical questions that have usually been assumed to have a godly, or supernatural, or wooish answer, or otherwise swept under the rug as if we …
Monthly Archive: June 2012
Jun 25 2012
Movie Monday: The Camelunist Hammerfesto
Last week I sat down with Daniel Fincke from the FTBlog Camels with Hammers to chat about race and race-related subject matters. We were trying out the Google+ hangout environment that we used for last week’s FTB + Skepchick group conversation. I imagine that I’ll be finding more ways to use this tool and be releasing …
Jun 21 2012
Suicide of an entirely different form
The Catholic Church says that they’re opposed to suicide. They say they’re very angry about it and those advocating it should cut it the fuck out: The Catholic archbishop of Vancouver is calling on the provincial government to appeal a landmark B.C. Supreme Court decision Friday that struck down the law that makes physician-assisted death …
Jun 21 2012
SSA Blogathon songathon – Lagavulin
Well… apparently I’m not done yet. jolo5309 requested some next-level jazz stuff that I simply couldn’t pull off with an acoustic guitar, so I asked him to re-request something. He foolishly asked me for some Canadian prairie rock, not realizing that I am newly a huge fan of Saskatchewan’s Wide Mouth Mason. I’ve been looking for an …
Jun 21 2012
Physician, kill myself
Anyone who follows my Twitter feed will be familiar with my habit of occasionally spontaneously going on rants about how much I love my city. I really do – we have a mayor I can respect, we have a proud tradition of social activism, we live in greater harmony with our natural environment than most …
Jun 20 2012
Good because it’s good
So maybe this makes me a ‘centrist’ (a label I abjure because my conception of a ‘centrist’ is someone who can’t make up their damn mind), but I don’t see myself as being particularly partisan. A political party or movement wins my allegiance because I agree with their ideas today, not because I agreed with …
Jun 20 2012
Because I am an Atheist: myatheistlife
Today’s contribution was submitted as a comment by reader and blogger myatheistlife Because I am an atheist… …today I did what I did yesterday, and the day before, and the week before and the month before and the year before. In fact, being an atheist has not changed my life. I still pay my bills, …
Jun 20 2012
Doctor Crommunist’s health prescription
Okay, so I am not a doctor (yet), but I do spend my 9-5 hours working as part of Canada’s health care system, and I do have a couple of degrees in which health policy played a pretty significant role, so I’m going to take this opportunity to make one of my (thankfully) rare digressions …
Jun 19 2012
Changing my tune
Oh neat! It’s time for one of my rare (but fun) retractions! Last Monday, I put the boots to James Croft for a conversation we had over Twitter. To summarize, I thought that his advocacy for increasing the use of song as part of humanist gatherings was a) offputting, and b) dangerous. A, because there …
Jun 19 2012
Because I am an atheist: Timid Atheist
Today’s contribution comes from the Timid Atheist, who was luckily not so timid that she couldn’t e-mail. Because I am an atheist… …I am a better person and a better mother. I accepted my atheism about a year and a half ago. Which came about via my search in regards to feminism. Since then I’ve …
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