Archive for December, 2012
Merry Christmas
From the IAmAnAtheist.com feedback form: Merry Christmas you poor sad bunch of people. We’re actually quite happy here. Merry Christmas to you, too!
Lightning
Just a brief comment today. I’ve been reading a lot of comments on various news sites by Christians today and so many of them are depressing. The talk about disrespect for God being responsible for the recent school shooting is getting muddled with talk about how it never would have happened if adults in the [...]
Tragic responses
Tragedy brings out the worst in some people. I’d like to share a few quotes that got my blood boiling today. “We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools,” [former governor Mike] Huckabee said on Fox News, discussing the murder spree that took the lives [...]
In: Comment, Dealing with religious folks
Conversations about Santa
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I’d like to address the question of how I handle it when children who are not my own as me if Santa Claus exists. I know that not all parents agree with my philosophy and I’m not going to try and trump them, so when a child asks me [...]
In: Atheists' problems · Tagged with: Christmas, Santa Claus
Children of truth
There’s a conversation I end up having almost every year around this time. At some point during that conversation, I say that I always try and tell my child the truth, and the person I’m talking to responds with the same look they’d probably give me if I said we speak nothing but Latin at [...]
In: Atheists' problems · Tagged with: Christmas, Santa Claus
Doing my research
Most of my free time is tied up in working on a new pro-thinking book so I don’t have much time for blogging at the moment. However, I wanted to reply to this e-mail that I received through the IAmAnAtheist.com submission form: first off the Bible doesn’t say Atheism is wrong. i don’t know where [...]
