Steve Baughman
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Steve Baughman is an attorney and some-time philosophy graduate student living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He posts skeptical musical thoughts about religion at his YouTube channel, Friendly Banjo Atheist.

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My Dinner With Ravi: An Atheist meets the “Great Apologist of our Time.”

“I am not a doctor, but I play one in real life.”

Steve Baughman / December 14, 2017 / ( 66 ) / in Religion / #Zacharias

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The Christian Industrial Complex Shields Its Own

The Case of the Amazing Shrinking Zacharias.

Steve Baughman / November 13, 2017 / ( 306 ) / in Religion / #Zacharias

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Christopher Carr

+ The Lord of the Rings is one of a handful of works I've stopped reading just before the end because I cared so little how [. . .]

The Lord of the Rings is one of a handful of works I've stopped reading just before the end because I cared so little how things would turn out.

Aaron David

+ Surprisingly well written. I still don't care for Tom Bombadil, the black riders (though I do know what they are) are creepy, its very pastoral. [. . .]

Surprisingly well written. I still don't care for Tom Bombadil, the black riders (though I do know what they are) are creepy, its very pastoral. But most of all, it is very, very English. Not British, not UK, but English. It helps that I have read parts of Dorthey Hartleys Lost Country Life at this point, for that really allows the parts in the Shire to open up.

+ When my oldest did her college tours her top choice was VT (ended up going else where do to better scholarship offers), but I remember [. . .]

When my oldest did her college tours her top choice was VT (ended up going else where do to better scholarship offers), but I remember how much they pushed safety and all the upfront things they talked about that had changed since the shooting. It was quite impressive. There is a good write up on it and the changes both there and nationally (such as amending the Clery Act) found here https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/clery/virginia_tech_shooting_anniversary_emergency_preparedness/
Hard to believe that was over 10 years ago now.

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National School Walkout Day, 19 years after Columbine

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Jaybird

How is it 20 years later?

Sunday!

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