Category Archives: Religion

Atheist Religious Conversion and Atheism/Agnosticism

A little while ago an atheist blogger converted to Catholicism publicly on her blog. It was mentioned on Blag Hag, which is the only reason I heard about it, then I guess there was a big media storm over it … Continue reading

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Talking to the Enemy

I just listened to the most recent episode of This American Life, Your Own Worst Enemy. The premise of the show is that sometimes people do things that aren’t good for them. In the 3rd act, we follow a very … Continue reading

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A Timely Bible Story Time

The Christian Right backlash over the whole birth control thing is starting to grate. Also, I’m starved for ideas and want to write something just so I can stay with it. So let’s see what the bible says about all … Continue reading

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State of the Blogger

I’m alive. Just very negligent in my duties regards blogging about scientific topics. Also, I’m now engaged. Which is something I wish I had data collection set up for in advance, because from what I’ve observed the two most important … Continue reading

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The Bible vs Christmas

Some people will have you think that we atheists are out to fight a war against the most Christian of Christian holidays: Christmas. See that? Christ is right in the title. If we face the facts, though, it becomes obvious … Continue reading

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Spiffy Neil deGrasse Tyson Vid

Hey, all. Sorry for being such a negligent blogger. If it’s any comfort my general lack of posts has, surprisingly enough, not been due to work so much as nice weather and things to do on the weekends. I have … Continue reading

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Turkish Secularism

I’m at work right now waiting for a vacuum pump to do its thing reading the Wiki-news, and I see a snippet on the Turkish government re-instating the ban on the hijab in schools and universities in the name of … Continue reading

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On Being Formerly Religious

Wow. This qualifying exam studying is taking more out of me than I thought. Sorry for getting anyone’s hopes up. To keep things brief, some of you already know my religious history, but I was raised a Jehovah’s Witness. My … Continue reading

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Thank God for Idioms!

On casual recommendation from an acquaintance I put on The Non-Prophets podcast earlier in the week whilst working on the endless morass that is first year graduate school. I believe the episode I chose was that dated March 29, 2008. … Continue reading

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Fergus’s Wager

I appear to be going through a Narcissist phase, because this will be my second post in a row where I claim credit for a silly (yet nominally entertaining) idea. If you’re not familiar with Pascal’s Wager, the basic idea … Continue reading

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