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Religion Dispatches
Anyone familiar with the Internet’s “Manosphere” will be unsurprised to learn that ” Red Pillers” and Men’s Rights Activists are fed up with the #MeToo movement. What is, perhaps, more surprising is…
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Religion Dispatches
Sam Harris recently appeared in a one-on-one segment on Real Time With Bill Maher to discuss Donald Trump’s immigration ban, which he criticized for being poorly executed and too sweeping, though he…
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Religion Dispatches
Whether it’s the Christmas miracle, the dreidel proclaiming that “a great miracle happened there,” or Saturday Night Live poking fun at the miracle narrative, ‘tis the season for miracle mentions to become commonplace.
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Religion Dispatches
The most outspoken non-believers have been antagonistic, bombastic, and sometimes profoundly embarrassing older white men.
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Religion Dispatches
Despite the clear animus of some high profile atheists, those who don’t believe in God are the most tolerant.
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Religion Dispatches
Last week, the blogger Hemant Mehta, who writes under the moniker “The Friendly Atheist,” told us to remove our heads from our asses and send Sam Harris an apology for an essay we published the…
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Religion Dispatches
By profession, Sam Harris is a brawler. The New Atheist writer has ongoing feuds with Salon, AlterNet, The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald, and plenty of religious leaders. Whether Harris is a brawler…
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Religion Dispatches
David Silverman, the president of American Atheists and author of the new atheist polemic Fighting God, really doesn’t want you to think he’s a dick. Instead, he wants you to think he’s “That Pretty…
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Religion Dispatches
A few months ago, one of us (okay, Andrew), referred to the esteemed physicist and public intellectual Lawrence Krauss as “a windbag.” One of us (Michael) can attest that Andrew is among the kindest…
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Religion Dispatches
Despite the scientist’s impassioned tweeting that ship had already sailed.
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