Bad Christians and Bad Atheists

I Sold My Soul on eBay author Hemant Mehta has a blog called “Friendly Atheist”.  Some of his posts are indeed of a friendly nature while others, especially recently it seems, are a bit less so.
Two recent entries are worth looking at:
Christians hurting Christianity 
Hemant asks: “Have any of you (Christian or atheist or otherwise) had [...]

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Wednesday Update – Seen and Heard This Week

Scott “Dilbert” Adams just put a post up that goes well with the discussions we’re having here regarding religious and Atheist violence and the body counts of each. I imagine there will be many comments there so go join the fray.
***update – Scott Adams says he accidentally deleted his own post.  The post and [...]

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Childhood Indoctrination

Over at the blog Piece of Mind, in a post called Doubt is a Higher Calling, Mark Tokarski has challenged me to define my thinking about childhood indoctrination a little more clearly.  It’s a valid challenge.  It’s worth reading his post before you read the following response:
Mark,
I’m glad we’re having this conversation… and this [...]

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Another Relusional Christian Takes a Look at Dawkins

My friend Nick Fox is also doing a series on Dawkins at his blog.
I am trying to read all 374 pages of The God Delusion and comment along the way; Nick is taking the easy way out and commenting on various interviews with Dawkins. (joking)

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The God Delusion – Part 2

Teach Your Children Well
Dawkins hypothesis of why someone like me is of the same religion as my parents involves what he calls “childhood indoctrination.”
“If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam is false, knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan, [...]

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Is this the dawning of the age of Atheism?

***This post is part of a series on Richard Dawkins’ book “The God Delusion”.***
I should start by saying that I’m not that familiar with Atheism. Of course I’ve met many people who have no specific belief in God, but not many who believed specifically that there is no God. So as I walk through [...]

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God For Weasels

I am a big Dilbert fan. Dilbert creator Scott Adams has a blog which is always, pretty much 98% of the time, hilarious. Today’s post “God for Weasels” is no exception.
It starts: “One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It’s a wonderful [...]

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“Relusional” Christian Reads Atheist’s Book

I began reading The God Delusion today. According to Richard Dawkins I am relusional. “Relusion” is a word suggested to Dawkins to replace the word “delusion” in the title of his book. Dawkins hopes the word relusion will catch on and be used to describe delusion when it is caused by religion.
 
Religious delusion = [...]

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