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Ask An Atheist Anything About Atheism

By Damion Reinhardt • Apr 16, 2015 • 9 comments

Today is National Ask An Atheist Day, which coincidentally always occurs just a few weeks before the National Day of…

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Oklahoma AG vows to protect classroom Bible distribution

By Damion Reinhardt • Apr 15, 2015 • 2 comments

  One can almost invariably count upon Oklahoma politicians when it comes to standing up for oppressed Christians, such as…

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Chart of the Week – Gender Gaps Around the World

By Damion Reinhardt • Apr 14, 2015 • 1 comment

Came across some slick data visualizations the other day at a website called Close the Gap. They illustrate male/female disparities in 175 nations by total income levels, labour force…

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Complimentary Earplugs (20/100) – Freakonomics

By Damion Reinhardt • Apr 11, 2015 • No comments

You’ve probably heard of the Freakonomics books and some of the more controversial theories therein, such as the notion that seemingly…

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In support of Boghossian

By Damion Reinhardt • Apr 10, 2015 • 45 comments

Earlier this month, Richard Carrier wrote something of a hit piece on Peter Boghossian. In that piece he said many…

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In conversation with a conservative skeptic

By Damion Reinhardt • Apr 10, 2015 • 3 comments

Awhile back, I made note of the fact that my local atheist group is overwhelmingly progressive: This massive ideological skew…

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PZ is not the problem

By Damion Reinhardt • Apr 8, 2015 • 19 comments

Atheist Ireland has recently publicly distanced itself from the hateful and harmful rhetoric of PZ Myers. Various bloggers have weighed…

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Godless activists invade Oklahoma State Capitol

By Damion Reinhardt • Apr 6, 2015 • 2 comments

Today was the big day of secular lobbying at the Oklahoma State Capitol; secular groups from all over the state converged…

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Easter weekend roundup

By Damion Reinhardt • Apr 6, 2015 • No comments

If you’re anything like me, you spent the weekend with a huge extended family, all of whom are culturally Christian, but…

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A 4-y.o. questions substitutionary atonement

By Damion Reinhardt • Apr 3, 2015 • No comments

The following dialogue is fiction. Any resemblance to actual conversations, whether online or offline, may not be entirely coincidental. 4-y.o. Why do they call…

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