The Twitter Report: Could It Be… Satan?
In my early days of blogging, I would have exhaustive debates, sometimes lasting for weeks, with believers who came across one of my websites and posed a challenge to me. But although it was fun in its...
View ArticleThe Twitter Report: Nice Guys Finish Last
Once again, I’ve gotten enmeshed in a debate on Twitter. This time it wasn’t with a theist, but with two atheists, Daniel Loxton and Reed Esau. It started with these two posts, which I happened to...
View ArticleThe Twitter Report: Let’s Have A Rousing Welcome for the Pope
On a related note to my last post, you’ve probably heard that the Pope recently took a bold step forward into the 21st century by joining Twitter. This is significant because it marks, to my knowledge,...
View ArticleThe Twitter Report: Hands Off My Freeze Peach!
It’s a slow news day. How about some internet drama to liven things up? As you all know, I’ve been writing a lot lately about sexism and misogyny in the atheist community. While most atheists are...
View ArticleThe Twitter Report: A Thing of Beauty
The blogger Geoff Ó Laoidhléis is apparently some kind of Twitter detective. I enjoyed his post from December exposing a “pro-life atheist” organization as a probable astroturf group, by observing that...
View ArticleThe Twitter Report: Leave the Long Island Medium Alone!
Just before the new Cosmos premiere last week, I noticed that “#LongIslandMedium” was trending on Twitter, a reference to a woman named Theresa Caputo. She’s just the latest in a long line of...
View ArticleThe Twitter Report: The Secret Purpose of Twitter
I probably shouldn’t have said this in public, but now that the cat’s out of the bag, I might as well tell you all as well. It all started a few days ago with a question about what the median number of...
View ArticleTiptoeing Around the Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act is an abiding dilemma for members of the right-wing Church of Not Gay. As marriage equality continues to progress, their latest cause celebre is arguing that believers should have...
View ArticleDawkins Needs Better Defenders
This week, I published a column in the Guardian arguing that Richard Dawkins’ sexism is overshadowing his contributions to the atheist movement. It got, shall we say, a large reaction. But not all...
View ArticleYou Got Your Ideology in My Atheism!
My column in the Guardian this week about atheism and social justice got a lot of comments – over 2900 at the time I’m writing this – and most of them were what you’d expect, both for the better and...
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