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Sam Harris is the author of “The End of Faith” and co-founder of the Reason Project, which promotes scientific knowledge and secular values. From the NYT: President Obama has nominated Francis Collins to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health. It would seem a brilliant choice. Dr. Collins’s credentials are impeccable: he [...]
From the NYT: For the city’s organized atheists — here’s hoping that doesn’t sound oxymoronic — the rotten economy would seem in one respect to be Heaven-sent. “You got it,” Kenneth Bronstein said. Mr. Bronstein is president of New York City Atheists, whose name should be self-explanatory. For the last month, his group has run [...]
Usually, I have a lot of respect for Charles Blow. But I think he misses the point. Is choir singing, the picnic, and the holiday play really worth snuggling up to a lie? Incidentally, we do have picnics. We also have community. We have monthly breakfasts, movie nights, book clubs, charity events (book wrapping, blood [...]