Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Since everyone else has a Simpsons post

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:16 pm

  Tags: Arts And Media, Atheists Agnostics And Doubters

  Let me weigh in with a comment on Bruce's. That quote he cites is pretty good evidence that the Simpsons has often taken a fairly sophisticated approach to religion, amongst the slapstick. Homer's worry: "What if we picked the wrong religion? Every week, we're just making God madder and madder!" Thyat's a pretty good refutation to the famous

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• Martin E. Marty's advice on dealing with atheists: Relax

  Published: August 7, 2007, 2:49 pm

  Tags: Around America, Arts Media, Atheists Agnostics Doubters

  Martin E. Marty, the renowned religion scholar and author (who is also a former Lutheran pastor) has some advice for his fellow Christians on how to respond to "the new atheism," popularized by such authors as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris. Writing in The Christian Century, Marty commends the anti-religious for

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• Carrollton dad wants God erased in schools

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:41 am

  Tags: Atheists Agnostics Doubters

  In Carrollton, atheist David Wallace Croft wants no part of religion. Especially, he wants no part of it in the school his three children attend. Katherine Leal Unmuth of our Metro staff reports that other parents at Rosemeade Elementary School regard Croft as a nuisance. She writes: He complained about Boy Scout rallies held during school,

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• Imagine how much good *two* moments would do

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Atheists Agnostics Doubters, Local Events

  In DMN Metro stalwart Katherine Leal Unmuth's account today of the trial challenging the Texas "moment of silence" in public schools, there's this lovely passage: "The moment of silence statute was passed to encourage thoughtful contemplation at the start of the school day, to promote patriotism through the students' quiet reflection following

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• Dept. Of Hearts, Minds And Souls: Religious Fanatics Attack U.S. Troops In Iraq

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:50 pm

  Tags: Allah, Atheists, Crazies, Dept Of Hearts Minds Souls, God, Iraq, Jesus

  A gang of fundamentalist religious fanatics are trying to destroy brave U.S. troops in Iraq, but the fundamentalist religious fanatics are also U.S. troops so it’s kind of a civil war deal, but...

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• More reax to the lawsuit against the "moment of silence"

  Published: August 9, 2007, 1:15 pm

  Tags: Atheists Agnostics Doubters, Culture Wars, Politics

  DMN Metro stalwart Katherine Leal Unmuth, who has been writing about this for us, passes along the following: Two days after my "minute of silence" story I am still receiving many emails. And a hearing has been set for Aug. 20 in David Wallace Croft's second lawsuit against Governor Rick Perry over the addition of the words one state under God

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• Dept. Of Hearts, Minds And Souls: Religious Fanatics Attack U.S. Troops In Iraq

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:50 pm

  Tags: Allah, Atheists, Crazies, Dept Of Hearts Minds Souls, God, Iraq, Jesus

  Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers (MILF), and they have meetings now and then where they can hang out and talk and say stuff like, “Where’s your god now?” So they hang up fliers around the bases so that other soldiers who also don’t believe in make-believe things will know to show up at the meetings

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• Army Major disrupts Atheist meeting in Iraq - threatens court martial

  Published: August 5, 2007, 5:58 pm

  Tags: Entanglement, Politics, Religious Intolerance, Atheist Persecution, Church State, Iraq, Military Association Of Atheists Freethinkers, Us Army

  Military Director, American Atheists, who is deployed right now in Iraq, sent this note talking about a disturbing incident that took place at Forward Operating Base in Iraq recently. Here is her report: Thought you'd be interested in this report of the first-ever meeting of... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left for the full

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• Godless Texans plan to rally in Austin Saturday

  Published: September 4, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Atheists Agnostics Doubters, Politics

  jump. American Atheists www.atheists.org The Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers maaf.info The Freethinkers at the University of Texas at Arlington www.freethinkersofuta.org The Freethinkers Association of Central Texas www.freethinkersact.org The Rational Response Squad www.rationalresponders.com Four of the goals

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• NYTimes magazine mounts a partial defense to one of Freud's most reviled books

  Published: September 9, 2007, 7:54 am

  Tags: Atheists Agnostics Doubters, Judaism

  The New York Times magazine pretty consistently has at least one interesting faith/values feature every week. This week, I was struck by an essay by Mark Edmundson, who teaches English at the University of Virginia. His book The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days is being published this month. The title of the piece is

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• 'On Faith' takes on theodicy

  Published: September 10, 2007, 5:18 pm

  Tags: Atheists Agnostics Doubters, Eastern Faiths, Ethics, Interfaith Efforts

  Theodicy, it says here, was a word coined by the philosopher Leibniz in an essay. "The purpose of the essay was to show that the evil in the world does not conflict with the goodness of God, that, indeed, notwithstanding its many evils, the world is the best of all possible worlds." More broadly, the word has come to encompass attempts to explain

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• Dept. Of Some Blood For Oil: Old Jazzbo Hippie Claims Cheney Just Invaded Iraq For The Oil

  Published: September 17, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: Alan Greenspan, Atheists, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Bill Clinton, Clarinet, Depression, Dept Of Some Blood For Oil, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Hippies, Housing Bubble, Housing Collapse, Internet Bubble, Iraq, Jazz, Nyu, Objectivists, Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein

  Some little hipster clarinet player from NYU is claiming the Iraq invasion and occupation was all about securing oil supplies for America. Oh and what is that sticking out of Jazzbo Al’s...

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• Dept. Of Some Blood For Oil: Old Jazzbo Hippie Claims Cheney Just Invaded Iraq For The Oil

  Published: September 17, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: Alan Greenspan, Atheists, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Bill Clinton, Clarinet, Depression, Dept Of Some Blood For Oil, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Hippies, Housing Bubble, Housing Collapse, Internet Bubble, Iraq, Jazz, Nyu, Objectivists, Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein

  Some little hipster clarinet player from NYU is claiming the Iraq invasion and occupation was all about securing oil supplies for America. Oh and what is that sticking out of Jazzbo Al’s tattered raincoat? A worn paperback of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” which he actually first read when she was writing it, when he was

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• An amusing negative review of a faith-flavored book

  Published: September 18, 2007, 3:05 pm

  Tags: Arts Media, Atheists Agnostics Doubters

  the book. Here's a nugget: Atheists of the Richard Dawkins stripe know that God does not exist. Believers know with equal certainty that he does. As for me, I don't know. And that's all I've got to say really, so don't expect to find anything very illuminating in the next 250 pages. Believers believe because they believe; atheists don't believe

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• God and money

  Published: September 21, 2007, 11:07 am

  Tags: Around America, Atheists Agnostics Doubters, Politics

  It's been 50 years since "In God We Trust" appeared on U.S. currency (though the phrase has been on our coins much longer than that). Adelle M. Banks of Religion News Service provides a mini-history of the motto that has caused so much legal hubub.

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