Time to close some tabs, this time on my perhaps greatest intellectual heroes. Daniel C Dennett and Douglas Adams. Starting with Adams: “Is there an artificial god?” – Douglas Adams brilliant speech on Digital Biota 2 Cambridge U.K., September 1998. Fabulous stuff in a rambling typical Adamesque way. Including the [...]
fungrimIn no particular order. p00wned by Russlle’s Teacup. Terrorism and Radicalization; By Scott Attran (on Edge) Like airport security? I don’t. Enjoy!
fungrimThree quick pieces: A very nice article in Philadelphia Weekly. A long, but very good case against god. Required reading (PDF) for debating an atheist. Happy New Year!
fungrimThis is a damn fine blog which you all should read. A teenage atheist in a heavily catholic country. With an intolerant family. Damn it got me angry. Let’s all go there and leave our encouragement and respect.
fungrimA short note to self: even though it’s an ugly t-shirt, perhaps a banner or a poster would be nice? Damn good stuff! (But perhaps not for faint hearted Christians).
fungrimSo, last night I sang at a midnight mass together with St Jacobs Chamber Choir. The darkest night in the quiet week. Right in the plot, the longest dark, where our heroes seems doomed, with evil on all sides and no way out. And it struck me, forcefully, how self-centered and, here comes an ugly word indeed, whiny the religious angst is [...]
fungrimYou know, I never understood this easter thing. Even as a Christian I thought is was pretty dump to mourn on the black Friday. You see, I thought like this at the time: Judas betrayed Jesus to the romans. Ok. Jesus gets crucified by the jews. Mind you, not the romans.. Right. By dying on the cross for our sins, he saves our souls. [...]
fungrimI really don’t understand what all the fuzz is about. The Rational Response Squad makes a PR-bid and challanges people to put a video of themself denying the holy spirit on YouTube, with the incentive that they’ll get a free copy of The God Who Wasn’t There.Were’s the problem? When PZ links to a defense, the [...]
fungrimA very good overview, by Derk Pereboom, University of Vermont, here. I thought I would make some comments of my own, but I haven’t had time yet. We’ll see if I can get to it the next couple of days.
fungrimOk, so this has been all over the place already. It is still very good. Here.
fungrim