I’m going to be attending the Northeastern Conference on Science and Skepticism this weekend. I find that this is the rational antidote to Michael Voris coming to my area. I hope to see many of my Facebook friends there! The Northeast Conference on Science & Skepticism (NECSS – pronounced “nexus”) is an educational conference held […]
Rebecca Goldstein presents Spinoza as an autonomous philosopher who had a very high degree of courage, concern for looking for the truth, and rationality. The history of Jewish persecution, Goldstein suggests, deeply influenced Spinoza and led him to question his identity and shape his ideas. Goldstein writes, “Spinoza opted for secularism at a time when the […]
I submitted the following Letter to the Editor to the Times Leader and it was published today. We need more rationality in these local papers…far too many writers write about glorifying God and how he’s going to save the world. He’s not. For some reason, my 250-word letter was cut! I’ll post the “full” 250-word […]