Links With Your Coffee - Friday
First a thanks to all of those who when shopping at Amazon use the link near the top of the sidebar. I get a little bit of the action when you do, and it certainly helps with the site's expenses. Although I know what you purchase I don't know who makes the purchases. Purchases that range from nail guns to a Mac Mini to adult toys, it's quite an eclectic crowd that visits onegoodmove, so thank you everyone.
Godless StatesThis is an excellent article and well worth the read. It is rather long, but I think you'll find it worth the effort.
Dilemmas of secularism in India and America. Parallels between the Christian right in the US and Hindu nationalists in India show how crucial it is to defend the Enlightenment idea of the secular state. While it is important to give faith its due, faith too must give reason its due. The postmodern deconstruction of science has, ironically, been very hospitable to reactionary religiosity.
As long as divine revelations or spiritual laws continue to be invoked as the basis for morality in the private sphere, it is unreasonable to expect a diminution of God-talk from the public sphere. In other words, the care and maintenance of secular states requires secularisation of culture. Without deep enough roots in secular civic cultures, secular states will remain at a risk of being hijacked by traditionalist and nationalist forces.David Sedaris on poop from This American Life
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An Atheist Manifesto
Dawkins Interview at Beliefnet
America's Most Literate Cities go Leftbanker are there other onegodmove readers who reside in Seattle.
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Hey Norm -- aren't you in Seattle? onegoodmove is single handedly increasing the literacy rate there! awesome! keep up the good work. -- AP
I, too, reside in Seattle. I am currently attending Indiana University for Jazz Studies, but I am about to move back to Sea-town to take three months off so that I can finish my book about the recent equivocation of the term "liberal" with leftist partisan association.
steh, jazz studies? I don't mean to sound like a prick but...what the fuck do you do with a degree in jazz studies? And no, unemployed is not a career.
I am fortunate enough to live in Seattle. A native to boot.
Broken Link to Sedaris Audio... anyone else have trouble?
No error and no audio too. QuickTime 7 is a poor choice unless you just love Apple to the exclusion of everything else. (It's hard to change some one's religion.)
It's your microsoft explorer use firefox or mozilla and it'll play fine. In the meantime I'll look into why it's not playing on explorer. No one is trying to change your religion if you don't like what you find here go somewhere else.
I have become even more literate since we got our bitchin' new Rem Coolhaas library. Seattle is also one of the bluest cities in America (if you exclude the bothersome red burbs). Do you think there is any corelation?
I am from Seattle, but living (temporarily) in Asheville, NC. We are inundated with christian, bush supporting, confederate flag waving lunacy every waking moment.
During the last elections, churches (with their tax exempt status) would display slogans such as "god holds you accountable for everything you do in life, including voting".
The morons here continue to support bush and cronies, even with all of the scandals surrounding their party, because they are "god fearing christians".
And...one statement to the confederate flag wavers who state that the flag stands for southern pride, not racism...uh, what pride? THE SOUTH LOST!
Oh, how I miss Seattle!
Meera Nanda has another very good article up criticizing Sam Harris' rational mysticism: the Mystifications of Sam Harris.
christ, that was completely awful...