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From Valerie Tarico: Prometheus Books is interested in publishing a book of testimonies of college students who have left the fold, including the testimonies of founding members of the various freethought campus groups that have sprung up across the country in the last decade or so. There will also be room for testimonies by “leavers” [...]
// 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. Evangelicals across the political spectrum, from Pat Robertson to Jim Wallis, seek to [...]
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. Are more social ills associated with religion or a lack thereof? If you’re honest, [...]
Update on a little side project I’ve been working on for a few months. Seattle Atheists President Case will be talking about the new Seattle Atheists bus sign campaign on Valerie Tarico’s SCAN TV show, Moral Politics, on Friday the 20th at 8:00 p.m. Watch live at http://www.scantv.org/. The Seattle Atheists advertising campaign begins April [...]
By Valerie Tarico. Cross-posted from her blog. What did Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin have in common besides their February 12, 1809 birthday? Both men transcended the self-centered thinking so characteristic of our kind, allowing them to see the unity of life in a new way. By self-centered, I don’t mean selfish. I mean our [...]
This is a cross-post by Valerie Tarico, author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth and the founder of Wisdom Commons. Many thanks to Valerie. Atheists are arrogant. Who hasn’t heard it? Arrogance is just one of their repellent qualities, of course. They are also ungenerous, cold, lonely, untrustworthy, amoral, and aggressive. You shouldn’t [...]
For those of you who missed it, Valerie Tarico, psychologist and author, gave a talk on moral development and raising moral children without god. Valerie is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth. Despite being raised in a fundamentalist family, she received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University [...]
Valerie Tarico writes: I honor Dan Barker’s work to call attention to the dark side of religion. Month after month, he and his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor defend kids who are tormented at school because they aren’t Christians. They give voice to young freethinkers. They file anti-discrimination lawsuits. They labor to keep science classes rigorous and social services [...]