Andrea Fitzpatrick lost her job last August and foundered for a while, as she struggled with her sense of self-worth. She had identified herself with her career, whatever it had happened to be. Corporate advance, money, and social status were the things that defined her. Unsurprisingly, they were not the things that made her [...]
The Atheist Bus Campaign is a project of the Freethought Association of Canada to offer an atheist message in the form of paid advertising on public transit vehicles in Toronto. It emulates the very successful Atheist Campaign started in the UK, and which has recently
This weekend, I saw Religulous, Bill Maher’s documentary-style raz of religion.
Given to comedic ridicule, and preoccupied with talking snakes and other absurdities, the movie is somewhat predictable as Maher wends his way across the globe in search of believers he can mock. He spends much time in the [...]
Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins, authors of Breaking the Spell and The God Delusion respectively, are perhaps most responsible for what is popularly called “new atheism”. With Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, they have added the concerns of atheist thinkers to popular Western discourse, unapologetically, with no sensitivity for the bruised feelings of theists. Perceived [...]
We’d been planning on doing something in the sun today, but it didn’t seem that either of us were up for anything in particular. We half-heartedly strapped the bikes to the back of the car and set off to the Horton’s for a starter coffee, thinking we were going to Caledon, and the bike trails [...]
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