Atheists, like captive pandas, are reknowned for having little interest in breeding. (Also like pandas, atheists are universally rotund and enjoy sitting in one place for sixteen hours eating bamboo shoots.) Now, this is not to say that atheists have no interest in having sex. We are interested in sex in spades, possibly even in …
Category Archive: Atheism
Posts skeptical of religion.
Sep 18
Atheism in the Workplace
A few weeks ago, one of my coworkers randomly asked me whether I prayed as I passed by her desk. Now, I’m a raging atheist, but I had to consider her feelings in my response. After all, you only ask people to pray if someone is dying or sick. How could I tell her that …
Sep 15
Atheism Will Get You Laid!
Owing to personal experience, the following data seemed highly counterintuitive, but apparently being an atheist will get you laid. And not just by goats, but by women! Women who are not goats! Okay, I’m actually giving this data the headline writer treatment. Without my overblown exagerrations, the blog entry actually says something slightly less exciting. …
Sep 13
Promoting Atheism Promotes Science
By now, Sheril Kirshenbaum’s and Chris Mooney’s book Unscientific America has received a lot of attention on the Internet, most notably for its attacks on atheistic popularizers of science like PZ Myers. Basically, the book argues that atheists should refrain from criticizing religion, as this sort of behavior alienates religious people from science and promotes …
Aug 29
Can We Be Optimistic in a World Without an Afterlife?
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 …
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