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Frederick of Black Skeptics points out that religion hasn’t been as good to African Americans as Be Scofield would like you to think:
Archive for January, 2012
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From the archives: The state of biblical scholarship, philosophy, and atheism
January 31st, 2012 
Chris Hallquist This was originally written in April of last year. It’s a response to a long question that I had gotten in a blog comment. Note that even though the question included a lot of mistaken assumptions, it was still a very useful springboard for writing a post, in part because it gave me an idea [...]
This is how fundamentalism ends: not with a bang, but with Rick Santorum pretending to have gay friends
January 31st, 2012 Chris Hallquist Vjack of Atheist revolution argues we should be careful about saying Christian fundamentalism is on the decline:
Buy Obama and Gingrich? (on Intrade)
January 30th, 2012 Chris Hallquist This is another post about politics, but instead of telling you who (not) to vote for, I want to dip into talking about what, just as a matter of fact, is most likely to happen. The discussion is going to focus around Intrade, a site that lets you bet on the outcome of various events, [...]
Racism, misogyny, and those nasty Italian Fascists
January 30th, 2012 Chris Hallquist A couple weeks before I made the switchover to Freethought Blogs, there was an internet dustup between Greta Christina and DJ Grothe (President of the James Randi Educational Foundation). I started a post series on it, then put the series on hold while the change over happened, and now the blog conversation has already shifted [...]
Tweak to comment policy
January 27th, 2012 Chris Hallquist I am officially adding being really, really, weird to the list of delete/ban/disemvowell-able offenses. That is all.
Sign petition to get Arizona high school to follow the law
January 27th, 2012 Chris Hallquist So: some students Paradise Valley High School in Phoenix Arizona want to start a branch of the Secular Student Alliance there. The high school says they have to collect signatures of students saying they’re OK with the club forming. This is entirely illegal. The law says that if a school allows any non-academic clubs, they [...]
Strange times: culture wars vs. cultural-demographic trends
January 27th, 2012 Chris Hallquist We (I’m talking USians here) live in strange times. A post by Will Wilkinson on Newt Gingrich captures a lot of that strangeness:
Christian philosopher comes to love Lord Krishna
January 27th, 2012 Chris Hallquist Christian philosopher Michael Sudduth has announced his conversion to Vaishnava Vedanta (he seems to think the “Hindu” label is misleading). Bill Vallicella (who I criticized yesterday) has posted a long letter from Sudduth explaining his conversion (HT: Mark Vuletic). Here’s a sampling:
Curious comment by Plantinga about evolutionary psychology
January 26th, 2012 Chris Hallquist Alvin Plantinga’s latest book, Where the Conflict Really Lies, contains a brief discussion of evolutionary psychology. Not surprisingly, he’s suspicious of it. But there’s one especially strange comment that I missed when I wrote my review:
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