Why I am not a New Atheist
Since this comes up now and then I thought I’d put up a quick and short post why I am not a “New Atheist.” I am an atheist. But I have two major disagreements with the New Atheist tendency. One of them is descriptive and the other is prescriptive. For the past fifteen years or […]
Treasure your exceptions, progress is real but not universal
The beginning of How the Scots Invented the Modern World describes the execution of a man for the crime of atheism around 1700 in Scotland. More precisely, this individual was rather loud about their heresy, and that is always the problem. Silent dissent is usually tolerated. This is the last time someone was executed for […]