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My name is Jeff, and I write this blog. I work as an interface designer in Denver, CO. I am also an amateur musician, a free-thinker, and a generally curious person.
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- Gah! Earlier, my iPhone was slow and I had work to do. Now @ConanOBrien is sold out! >>> 17 hours ago
- A few choice words for the nose picker in the men's room: http://yfrog.com/9tyx4j >>> 2010/03/11
- Wow, Jon Stewart raked Marc Thiessen over the coals last night. >>> 2010/03/10
- Oh my god! Nina took a ton of fantastic photos of me and the dogs. Look! http://bit.ly/aGzO86 >>> 2010/03/08
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- Eaten a lot of good Mexican food this weekend. Kept a healthy headsweat going for 3 days. >>> 2010/03/07
- RIP Mark Linkous. Good Morning Spider is one of the most perfect albums ever. Christ, this is sad. >>> 2010/03/07
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- On a dare, I recorded (the first draft of) an album in February. Check it out: http://bit.ly/bFb1AS >>> 2010/03/05
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Tag Archives: atheism
Christians Disappearing
The survey of more than 54,000 people conducted between February and November of last year showed that the percentage of Americans identifying as Christians has dropped to 76 percent of the population, down from 86 percent in 1990. Those who do call themselves Christian are more frequently describing themselves as “nondenominational” “evangelical” or “born again,” [...]
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Big Tent Atheism?
Boing Boing guest blogger Paul Spinrad has issued something of a challenge to activist atheists.
Firstly, he offers up this insight:
In politics, I think there are two competing motivations for voters to support a cause publicly. One is to influence the majority to agree, to make changes that you believe in, and the other is to distinguish [...]
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Scott Dikkers of The Onion
Turns out that editor-in-chief of The Onion is a thoughtful, well-spoken atheist. Not surprising, really. Here’s a talk he gave about atheism. The best line in it is this:
People now have the option to just believe whatever they want–just make something up–it doesn’t matter if it’s not substantiated. And that hurts the rest of us.
IMO, [...]
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Why Aren’t American Atheists Nice?
Why are American atheists unhappy and mean? Suprise! It might be religion’s fault.
American atheists, by contrast, are often left out of community life. The studies that Brooks cites in Gross National Happiness, which find that the religious are happier and more generous then the secular, do not define religious and secular in terms of belief. [...]
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