While Huckabee and Romney are teaching religious bigotry, a more painful but also more hopeful story emerged from New York City, where some of their spiritual students attempted putting their attitudes into practice. Walter Adler was with his girlfriend and two other friends returning from dinner out. Getting on a New York subway, he replied…

Today I saw two related stories, one awful, but also inspiring, the other disgusting, but expected. I will make two separate posts from them, but they belong together The disgusting-but-expected one is the current dust up between Southern Baptist minister and Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and stepford candidate Mit Romney concerning whether Mormons believe Satan…

Photo by Guy Edwards Sam Harris, a meditating Village Atheist, has a letter in the latest Nature. He takes the magazine to task for praising a Christian scientist, Francis Collins, for “engaging ‘with people of faith to explore how science — both in its mode of thought and its results — is consistent with their…

PZ Myers is one of my favorite science bloggers, despite his pretty superficial discussions of religion. I read his Pharyngula pretty regularly. Mark Kleiman at The Reality Based Community is one of my favorite social science bloggers, again despite some important differences of opinion between us on drug policies, where his is one of the…

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