Tuesday, January 6, 2009

What’s The Deal With “Absolute” Morality?

The following is a guest post by OpenDiary blogger Atheist Under Ur Bed. This is part of an ongoing series that will be posted each Monday. You can read the introduction to this series by clicking here.
Welcome once again to Monday School - “The Easy Way To Burn Off All Those Nutrition-Free Claims Theists Like To Force-Feed Our Heads [...]

A Screed on Atheists & Morality

In my last post I began responding to a piece by Frederick Meekins, titled “Have Yourself A Theistic (Not Atheistic) Little Christmas,“ in which he charged that atheists are just as dogmatic in their epistemological assumptions as the most zealous evangelical Christian. Now I would like to examine the rest of what he wrote on atheists and [...]

What Must We Do To Be Saved?

The following is a guest post by OpenDiary blogger Atheist Under Ur Bed. This is part of an ongoing series that will be posted each Monday. You can read the introduction to this series by clicking here.
Welcome once again to Monday School - “The Rational Corrective To All That Nonsense You Learned Yesterday.”

Today’s Lesson: What [...]

Atheists & Christmas

In my current poll I ask whether or not atheists should celebrate Christmas. As of this writing, 65% of readers answered ‘Yes’, 25% ‘No’, and the remaining 10% were undecided. I am a bit surprised that so many people agreed that atheists should celebrate Christmas, but this is not far off from my own opinion [...]

Britons & The Nativity

While millions of Christians in the United States will be celebrating the birth of Jesus, non-believers perhaps can take some comfort knowing that our friends on the other side of the pond are growing increasingly skeptical of the nativity story:
Most ‘do not believe in nativity’: The majority of Britons do not believe the Biblical story [...]

Mark Twain & The Bible

The following is a guest post by OpenDiary blogger Atheist Under Ur Bed. This is part of an ongoing series that will be posted each Monday. You can read the introduction to this series by clicking here.

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Welcome back to Monday School - always the landslide winner over Sunday School in Rationalist County no matter what type of [...]

Mark Twain & The Fall

The following is a guest post by OpenDiary blogger Atheist Under Ur Bed. This is part of an ongoing series that will be posted each Monday. You can read the introduction to this series by clicking here.

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Welcome to the first Monday School of November - STILL “The Rational Corrective To All That Nonsense You Learned Yesterday” even [...]

Moses & Company (Part 2)

The following is a guest post by OpenDiary blogger Atheist Under Ur Bed. This is part of an ongoing series that will be posted each Monday. You can read the introduction to this series by clicking here.
Welcome back to Monday School - the fast-acting nonsense reliever in convenient entry form!
As you may recall, last week we began analyzing the [...]

Slavery & Biblical Morality

OpenDiary.com blogger “California Christian” posted an article on slavery in the Bible and then left me the following comments. These are my short responses to those comments.
Now, as for slavery, the crux of the article was not that the Bible condems slavery, it was that certain kinds of slavery are permitted. For instance, it was preferable to [...]

Moses & Company

The following is a guest post by OpenDiary blogger Atheist Under Ur Bed. This is part of an ongoing series that will be posted each Monday. You can read the introduction to this series by clicking here.
Good morning, class! And welcome to another session of Monday School. Whether you’re a long-time student or a new transfer, I hope you’ll [...]

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