The Good Atheist

Daniel Dennett is awesome

I was lucky enough to go to one of Dan’s lectures when he came to Montreal a few years ago. Dan is one of the “Four Horsemen”, but he doesn’t really get the respect he rightly deserves. Dan is funny, provocative, and looks like a cross between Santa Clause and Charles Darwin. What’s not to [...]

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Tony Blair wants religion to save the world.

If you’re not British, you might not really care what Tony Blair is up to. After all, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, we regard the man as nothing more than a puppet of the Bush administration (Nelson Mandela famously described him as “the US foreign minister“). Most Brits tend to [...]

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Hitchens: why it’s a good thing God doesn’t exist

As we continue our coverage of everything Hitchens, I can’t help but notice how passionate he seems to be getting on this subject. He sometimes gives me the impression that he’s half asleep in some lectures, but I have come to believe that this may actually be a result of his heavy drinking rather than [...]

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More Religious Tragedy

Your average, moderately religious person is deadly afraid of cults. It’s not the brainwashing they are afraid of, but rather the type of brainwashing that is used. After all, the most distinguishing characteristics of cults is that they usually take a very literal approach to their religion, and this uncomfortable reality often reminds the faithful [...]

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Time Machine : Dawkins pushes atheism to the masses

TED.com is a website devoted to sharing ideas and concepts. On it you’ll find tons of videos about all sorts of ideas, amongst them varying viewpoints on religion. This particular video is a 30 minute video lecture by Richard Dawkins recorded in April 2002: The session was titled “The Design of Life,” and the TED audience [...]

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