Daylight Atheism » Secularism http://www.daylightatheism.org NIGHTTIME IS FOR DREAMING. DAYLIGHT IS FOR ACTION. Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:14:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Rick Perry's Prayer Follies http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/08/rick-perrys-prayer-follies.html http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/08/rick-perrys-prayer-follies.html#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:25:32 +0000 Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=4212 Whether you're an atheist or not, you should be alarmed by the sight of elected officials making a big public show of praying during a crisis. It's not that prayer itself does anything one way or the other - it's that their beseeching the gods for help is a good hint, not just that they have no ideas, but that they've given up even trying and are staking their hopes on a miracle. Which is why this story, ... [visit site to read more]

]]> http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/08/rick-perrys-prayer-follies.html/feed 47 6 Ways Atheists Can Band Together to Fight Religious Fundamentalism http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/08/6-ways-atheists-can-band-together.html http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/08/6-ways-atheists-can-band-together.html#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:48:40 +0000 Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=4133 This essay was originally published on AlterNet.

If atheists were as politically organized as the religious right, we could accomplish a world of good in combating theocracy and standing up for human rights and secularism. But whenever an atheist political alliance is ... [visit site to read more]

]]> http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/08/6-ways-atheists-can-band-together.html/feed 17 There Are 10 Times as Many Atheists as Mormons: When Will Non-Believers Become a Political Force? http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/07/atheists-as-a-political-force.html http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/07/atheists-as-a-political-force.html#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:39:30 +0000 Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=3906 This essay was originally published on AlterNet.

The propagandists of the religious right shout it aloud as their battle cry: "America is a Christian nation!" And in the trivial sense that ours is a nation populated mostly by Christians, this is true. But in the sense that they mean it, that Christianity was intended to occupy a ... [visit site to read more]

]]> http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/07/atheists-as-a-political-force.html/feed 22 To Win, We Just Have to Show Up http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/06/to-win-we-just-have-to-show-up.html http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/06/to-win-we-just-have-to-show-up.html#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:55:28 +0000 Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=3902 In the wake of marriage equality's victory in New York State last Friday, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler posted the following to Twitter:

Now, fully 1 in 9 Americans will live in a state with legalized same-sex marriage. Our mission field is getting more complicated.

On the surface, this is ... [visit site to read more]

]]> http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/06/to-win-we-just-have-to-show-up.html/feed 21 New on Alternet: Atheists as a Political Force http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/06/alternet-atheists-as-a-political-force.html http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/06/alternet-atheists-as-a-political-force.html#comments Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:09:23 +0000 Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=3811 Today I'm very happy to announce that I've become a contributor to AlterNet, the award-winning online progressive news and opinion magazine. My first essay is titled "There Are 10 Times As Many Atheists as Mormons: When Will Non-Believers Become a Political Force?" Read an excerpt below, and then click through to see the rest:

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]]> http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/06/alternet-atheists-as-a-political-force.html/feed 30 Standing Up for Young Freethinkers http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/06/standing-up-for-young-freethinkers.html http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/06/standing-up-for-young-freethinkers.html#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:44:40 +0000 Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=3778 This is another story that broke while I was away in Spain, but I wanted to write about it. I'm sure it will no longer come as news, but it's definitely worth commenting on.

Greta Christina sums it up on Alternet, but in brief: A Louisiana public high school student, Damon Fowler, objected to a prayer that his school ... [visit site to read more]

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I just thought I’d do a quick whirl through some stories of note in the papers this week:

Firstly, and probably most obviously, the Rapture failed to materialise. The herald of doom for this event, Harold Camping announced his shock and surprise that a literal, physical Rapture did not arrive in exactly the way he prophesised. Instead, the Rapture was of a spiritual nature, and we are still on track for a 21st October Armageddon. To ... [visit site to read more]

]]> http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/05/news-round-up.html/feed 6 Video! See My Speech at Columbia http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/columbia-speech.html http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/columbia-speech.html#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:46:05 +0000 Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=3514 Last night, I made my debut as a speaker for the Secular Student Alliance, appearing before the atheist student group at Columbia University to discuss the history of church-state separation. It was a short talk, about 20 minutes with Q&A, which suited me just fine for my first foray into public speaking. But I'm very happy with the way it turned out, and I'm hoping there will be more and longer engagements in the future. My thanks again to ... [visit site to read more]

]]> http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/columbia-speech.html/feed 14 The Abuse of the Doctrine of Standing http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/the-abuse-of-standing.html http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/the-abuse-of-standing.html#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:44:50 +0000 Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=3466 In what's becoming a depressingly predictable trend, there's bad news on the church-state front: the Freedom from Religion Foundation's legal victory over the National Day of Prayer has been tossed out by a federal appeals court. A three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit dismissed the lawsuit, finding ... [visit site to read more]

]]> http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/the-abuse-of-standing.html/feed 27 Marching for Oppression http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/marching-for-oppression.html http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/marching-for-oppression.html#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:35:08 +0000 Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=3438 Over the past few months, we've seen amazing and inspiring demonstrations of people power erupting across the Middle East, toppling dictatorships that have been in place for decades. It's far too soon to say what form of government will emerge from these movements - whether they'll give rise to true democracies, or whether new dictatorships will replace the old - and the unwelcome news that Egypt's ... [visit site to read more]

]]> http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/marching-for-oppression.html/feed 23 From the Mailbag: Deconversion Saturday http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/deconversion-saturday-ii.html http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/deconversion-saturday-ii.html#comments Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:40:40 +0000 Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=3428 It's not every day that I get awesome letters like the one I posted last Saturday, but this makes two weeks in a row now. If this keeps up, I may have to make it a regular feature!

This letter is from a commenter who's posted here in the past as 5acos(phi/2). Although it's from a country I don't have first-hand experience of, it has a lot in common with the kind of letters I get more frequently, just with ... [visit site to read more]

]]> http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/deconversion-saturday-ii.html/feed 8 Weekly Link Roundup http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/weekly-link-roundup-14.html http://www.daylightatheism.org/2011/04/weekly-link-roundup-14.html#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:32:29 +0000 Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/?p=3404 If I had the time, I'd write a whole post about each of these. As it is, you can probably guess what I would say:

• There are atheists in the military!

• And in high schools!

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