One last Christmas song (okay, two in one clip – lucky you!) After watching this, you should immediately go buy the Hawksley Workman Christmas album. He just released a re-recorded, more acoustic version of the album but I prefer the original. (Oh, and I should make an admission. Even though I’m an atheist, I do […]
On December 25, people around the world celebrate the birth of a man whose ideas not only changed the world but revolutionized it. Although the man’s religious beliefs evolved and changed over time, that doesn’t change the fact that he is widely regarded as one of the most influential people to ever have lived. I […]
Need a last minute gift? Check-out the 100 Highest Rated Gifts on Amazon.com AskMF Suggestions for Sad, Miserable and Melancholy Christmas Songs How an atheist feels during the holidays …and what you get when you ask your smart-ass son to decorate the Christmas tree (via Reddit)
I’m planning to post a month of Music Monday Xmas tunes, starting with this great atheist-themed Christmas song originally posted by my friend Cenobyte last year on Facebook or her blog (I don’t think I ended up posting it last year but if I did, it’s worth listening to again!)
…was quite possibly a fiction book! I think I’ve mentioned before that I read mostly non-fiction – probably 80-90% NF to 10-20% Fiction. But a recent Reddit thread on “eye-opening books that have improved the quality of your life” led me to a great fiction find. In the thread, somebody recommended Bill Bryson’s “A Short […]
This great video makes the case that we haven’t evolved to compete with each other but to empathize with one another. I especially like how it builds the case of how our strongest connections grew from family relationships to tribes to religion-as-extended-family to nation-states-as-extended-family to the natural next step to a worldwide unity of purpose, […]
Oprah Winfrey had her last episode at the end of May and though I wasn’t a regular watcher, I did tune in for this historic episode by a woman that’s had major cultural significance for the last twenty-five years – from becoming the world’s first African-American billionaire (as a woman to boot!) to having a […]
A 41-year old blogger in British Columbia dies of complications from stage four colorectal cancer. Knowing that he’s dying of cancer gives him the wonderful opportunity to compose one last blog entry to be posted after his death where he can write about some of his thoughts on family, life and the beauty of it […]
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Posted 26 May 2011
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Last Christmas, I did a week-long series of posts exploring the topic of religion in general and my atheism specifically. One of my posts was about how, even though believers will give dozens of reasons why they are religious, from my perspective there were three main reasons I thought people actually were religious – whether […]
