Many religious people insist, in what can only be described as one of the worst cases of pyschological projection, that nonreligious people like myself only disbelieve out of fear of God. In reality, though, I find my own skeptical position much more fearful. I wish more than anything that there were an afterlife, that my …
Monthly Archive: August 2009
Aug 23
Lions and Tigers and Death Panels, Oh My!
All too often, wild, insane, and rabid frothing at the mouth passes for political discourse in this country. The recent debates concerning health care reform are no different. Raving idiots have hijacked the debate with inane ramblings against mythical health care bills that supposedly contain provisions for creating “death panels,” or beauracratic meetings of ominous …
Aug 06
Atheism and Absence of Evidence
Many people believe that the main difference between agnosticism and atheism is that atheism is dogmatic and closed-minded whereas agnosticism is more open and accepting. In reality, though, the difference between agnosticism and atheism isn’t a matter of degrees of certainty; the differences are primarily epistemological. The rowdy, unshakeable, dogmatic boisterousness associated with atheism is …
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