Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
I was invited to appear on episode two of the new “Chill Girls in Pink Corvettes” podcast with @reneehendricks, @woolybumblebee, and @jeh74 (‘Outwest’) to discuss secular/atheist activism and current controversy in the atheist/skeptic communities. How can people get involved in secular/atheist activism? How can people who shy away from controversy contribute? What sort of pushback […]
One of the greatest barriers to having critical discussion with many religious believers — from my experience — is the meme that applying skepticism to religious ideas is rude, offensive, intolerant, and hateful. Rather than defending ideas or simply exiting the discussion, various theists have objected to the discussion taking place and heaped abuse on the skeptic. […]
Ed Clint critiqued a recent speech concerning evolutionary psychology which was presented by Rebecca Watson at a skeptic conference. Jonathan MS Pearce, another Skeptic Ink Network writer, has also weighed in. I won’t discuss the content of Watson’s speech in this post, but rather will articulate why expertise – proficiency in a field demonstrated by effective […]
I recently recorded an interview with the president of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), D.J. Grothe, for a special episode of the NEPA Freethought Society Podcast produced by Jason Gogola. We primarily spoke about the intersection of atheism, skepticism, and humanism in addition to the differences concerning these individual terms. Also discussed was the […]
Dr. Peter Boghossian — Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University who was recently strangely featured as a cardboard cutout in a video created by Christians who called him a demagogue — will be appearing on an episode of National Progressive Talk Radio titled “Faith a Cognitive Sickness” streaming online at 9:00PM on September 2nd. […]
