Christopher Hitchens and Dinesh D’Souza at Macky Auditorium, CU Boulder, January 26, 2009 “…I can assert; i can ask you to consider that the person in charge of this is … very incompetent, very tinkering, very capricious, or very very cruel. I think that our moralities are innate, our ethics are innate to us, as […]
Read MoreCNN PRODUCER NOTE TXBlue08, a mother of two teenagers in Texas, blogs about raising her children without religion. She said she shared this essay on CNN iReport because ‘I just felt there is not a voice out there for women/moms like me. I think people misunderstand or are fearful of people who don’t believe in […]
Read MoreWe completely miss the opportunity to understand ourselves and others if we don’t demystify the topic of sex. So let’s talk about sex. i’ll try to keep this short; it’s a big topic why is it that in one discussion after another about sex… that everyone ignores, or perhaps doesn’t consider the fact that sex […]
Read More sexRead this at my funeral (the whole thing – not just the quote below), as a last message to the biggest crowd i can muster. 😉 www.samharris.org/site/full_text/afterword-to-the-vintage-books-edition/ What we need is a discourse about ethics and spiritual experience that is as unconstrained by ancient ignorance as the discourse of science already is. Science really does […]
Read Morehttp://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/591/print/all — Mark Oppenheimer: Religion responds to a deep, satisfying human need for ritual. And it often organises the human quests for ethics and meaning. To think about the common good, the purpose of life and how to live, it has proven useful to use religious stories or theology. While some religion may be true, […]
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