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atheist mythos (not “the myth of atheism”) IFRL-NaPP-Retro-30599219720_a4e7fcd6ea_b

atheist mythos (not “the myth of atheism”)

Chris Dierkes May 25, 2009
Mark’s sharp post the other day on PZ Myers (building off a similarly sharp post by Br....
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Please join me

Freddie May 25, 2009
in congratulating Ms. Dara Lind and Mr. Will Wilson on their graduating college. Now go get ’em.
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Monday Evening Humor

Chris Dierkes May 25, 2009
For Br. Will:
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Thank You Jesus, Subway, and NBC

Chris Dierkes May 25, 2009
Chuck got a Third Season.  Even if it doesn’t start until after the Winter Olympics here in...
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The Difficult Cloudy Middle of Abortion

Guest Authors May 25, 2009
By Dan Summers — I enjoyed Chris’s recent post about Obama’s commencement speech at Notre Dame.  With...
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AQFTD

Chris Dierkes May 25, 2009
At a minimum, Obama seemed alive to the moral and legal ambiguities implied by the issue. Not...
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the ballad of RSM

Freddie May 24, 2009
Worried that conservatives will really make a roaring comeback? Read Robert Stacy McCain, and be assuaged. Joe,...
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Sunday Poem Series

Freddie May 24, 2009
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (translated and modified by Edward Fitzgerald) 1 Awake! for Morning in the...
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Crazy Church Story of the Day

Chris Dierkes May 23, 2009
So I’m working at my church today and there’s a wedding.  It’s all going more or less...
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Quote o’ the Day

Chris Dierkes May 23, 2009
Even deciding where the two Qaeda suspects in Pakistani custody will be kept over the long term...
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Torture vs. Steroids

Will May 23, 2009
A cogent point from the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Mark Madsen: When the congressional hearing of Jose Canseco vs....
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Friday Night Jukebox

Freddie May 22, 2009
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a quote for anyone headed to the movies this weekend

Erik Kain May 22, 2009
“Like the enemy with which he is supposed to be contrasted, he is relentless, impervious, and utterly...
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Star Trek

Erik Kain May 22, 2009
By the way, I saw Star Trek this past weekend and it was great fun.  I’m not...
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Next Up…

Erik Kain May 22, 2009
…Rush?  Cheney?  Levin?  Beck?  O’Reilly?  Or is the Mancow the only one with the stones not only...
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The Guilt By Religious Association Canard

Mark of New Jersey May 22, 2009
Ken at Popehat has what our friend Kip rightly calls an “important post” up about PZ Myers’...
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health care and confidence

Erik Kain May 22, 2009
The question of whether or not to nationalize health care is often framed within a discussion of...
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Department of Idiotic Ideas

Will May 22, 2009
The FTC looks into regulating blogger credibility.
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this…

Erik Kain May 22, 2009
…is just frightening to me.  It’s stomach-turning. Conor is right – this just isn’t something a decent...
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Where We Fight

Will May 21, 2009
Sonny Bunch responds to my earlier post, arguing that overseas military operations divert potential terrorists from domestic...
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