I've not even been here a full month, but it feels like I've been here quite some time. I feel quite at home here. Which is a good thing because around these parts folks aren't interested (at best) or are downright hostile (at worst) to atheism. I really needed a good place to hang out with like-minded people and discuss things that are on my mind. Or just hang out and read. To a very large extent I came here to learn. This site does well in that regard. I've already learned some good stuff here and I'm quite sure that I will learn a lot more. I am very happy that we've a fair number of religious believers who are active as it would be not nearly as interesting without them.
I like Sam Harris, but not nearly as much as the work of Richard Dawkins, and especially Christopher Hitchens. I really miss Hitch. I much enjoyed his reportage in Slate and elsewhere as well as his books. And I have to agree with the man - religion truly does poison everything. I don't care what any person believes, so far as they leave everyone else alone. The problem is that so many of them just will not do that, and here in the US we see the results every damn day.
Can't we ever just get along?
I like Sam Harris, but not nearly as much as the work of Richard Dawkins, and especially Christopher Hitchens. I really miss Hitch. I much enjoyed his reportage in Slate and elsewhere as well as his books. And I have to agree with the man - religion truly does poison everything. I don't care what any person believes, so far as they leave everyone else alone. The problem is that so many of them just will not do that, and here in the US we see the results every damn day.
Can't we ever just get along?
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
