Yes We Can

David Foster Wallace:
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it J.C. [...]

Posted on October 4th, 2008 by pwyll
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The Song Remains the Same

Posted on September 30th, 2008 by pwyll
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Faith. Hope. Change.

For years we have all heard the bleating from the left. The religious right is gonna git you. Falwell this, Baker that. The Christianist theocrats are scheming to take away women’s rights, and kill the gays. They’re gonna reprogram your children. They’re going to launch crusades, nuke the whales, put an end to rock and [...]

Posted on May 13th, 2008 by pwyll
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Seeing is believing

The first time I saw the image above, I asked myself “What is wrong with this picture?”
The answer is simple. Obama’s halo is misplaced. That’s by design, of course. One wants to keep this kind of thing more or less subliminal. But it’s not working. Some of the more enthusiastic Obamites just can’t keep their [...]

Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by pwyll
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Come to Jesus

There are (at least) two sorts of atheists. One sort, the hard atheists, cannot take seriously the idea of God. They consider believers to be misguided simpletons, at best. The other sort of atheist tries to understand the ideas by which the majority of humanity understands the world. I am one of the latter. I [...]

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by pwyll
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