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Was IRS Tea Bomber Joe Stack (1956-2010) an Atheist?
Maybe suicide terrorism isn’t the preserve of fanatic religionists afterall. In Joe Stack’s suicide web rant, which he posted just prior to flying a plane into an Austin office building filled with IRS employees, there is evidence that he was an antitheist of … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Charles Darwin, evolution, God, IRS, Jesus, joe stack, Richard Dawkins, suicide bombing, suicide terrorism, taxes
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John Yoo: A War Criminal Who Materially Assisted Torturers is Interrupted by a Guy Named Larry, a Graduate Student at Johns Hopkins University
Larry and his friend stand up to a Bush torture enabler. They are true American patriots.
IRS Tea Bomber Joe Stack (1956-2010) Played Bass, the Accordion, and Sang in a Band. He was also “Easygoing”
Then he wrote a suicide web letter and flew a plane into a building. This today at CNN: Thursday’s incident left those who knew Stack scratching their heads. “I can’t believe it’s the same person,” said Ric Furley, an Austin musician … Continue reading
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Tagged glenn beck, joe stack, joseph stack, micheal medved, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity, suicide bombing
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Stuart Kauffman on Poetry vs. Science and the Possibilities for Atheist Spirituality
Atheist spirituality? Isn’t that an oxymoron? Below is biologist and complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman speaking to the Centre for Inquiry in Ontario. In the talk, Kauffman is laying out some of the arguments that he makes in his book Reinventing the Sacred … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, biology, emergence, God, philosophy, physics, poetry, reductionism, Richard Dawkins, science, spirituality, stuart kauffman
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An Invitation: Believe in Evolution and You Too Can Join Richard Dawkins, and His Alien Friends, in the Universe’s Superior Club
When I read this Richard Dawkins quote on page 194 of Schick and Vaughn’s How to Think about Weird Things (5th edition), I smiled at its echoes of religious manipulativeness: If superior creatures from space ever visit Earth, the first question they … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, apologetics, atheism, atheists, God, Jesus, manipulation, Michael Behe, rhetoric, Richard Dawkins, schick and vaughn, UFOs
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