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Valerie Tarico on Dave Ross

Check out the Dave Ross show from this morning to hear Valerie talk about the Seattle Atheists bus sign campaign that’s going on right now. It’s on the 10:00 a.m. Segment at about 25:00. Paul and I get a shout-out. Thanks, Valerie! She does such a wonderful job putting the controversy into perspective.

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The Internet Monk interviews Dr. Valerie Tarico

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. What’s the point? 1. Evangelicals are constantly mischaracterizing non-theists. We need to listen and [...]

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How Beliefs Resist Change

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. The Jesuits have a saying sometimes attributed to Francis Xavier, “Give me the child [...]

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End Times: A Set of Prophecies or a Set of Hallucinations?

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. Real Christians are going to disappear abruptly someday soon. The world is going to [...]

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Christian Belief through the Lens of Cognitive Science, part 5: How Viral Ideas Hook Us

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. Did you know that Temple Baptist Church was built on land that sold for [...]

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I know because I know: Christian belief through the lens of cognitive science, part 3 of 6

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington.  She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. On a warm afternoon in June, two men have appointments with a psychiatrist. The [...]

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Christian belief through the lens of cognitive science, part 1 of 6

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington.  She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. My father died in a climbing accident when he was 59, and I was [...]

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Be good for goodness sake

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington.  She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. For years, atheists, agnostics, and other freethinkers have been saying that you don’t need [...]

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Atheists out in front with micro-lending

From Valerie Tarico: Are you familiar with www.Kiva.org ?  Through local micro-lending agencies, people in developing countries post loan requests—to buy a cow, a sewing machine, fruit to sell, etc.  Anyone can go to the site and choose people to lend to, in increments of $25. Anyhow, the Atheist/Agnostic/Freethinker group has made more loans than [...]

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If the Bible were law, would you get the death penalty?

Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington.  She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle. This week the Supreme Court declined to review a Texas murder case in which [...]

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