Archive for October, 2007
This Time, Giving Names
On Saturday, 6 October the Washington Post “On Faith” section featured a guest column by Matt Cherry titled “Welcome to This World, Lyra and Sophia,” in which he describes a nontheistic naming ceremony conducted for his daughters.
But there is nothing intrinsically religious about celebrating rites of passage. Atheists like me also have values and aspirations, [...]
Taking Names
Atheists and humanists are never prone to shy away from a good in-fight. And a minor controversy among nontheists was recently precipitated by Sam Harris’ sacrilegious address at the September conference of the Atheist Alliance International. Harris, author of “The End of Faith” and “Letter to a Christian Nation” and nom célèbre on the atheist / humanist circuit, has achieved notoriety for his blunt and forceful criticism of theistic religion. But at AAI’s conference in Washington DC he risked excommunication.
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