In an essay written in 1890, Ingersoll discusses the purposeful absence of God in the Constitution.

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Richard Dawkins calls for atheists to come out of hiding and cease being timid about their convictions.  He highlights and rejects stereotypes associated with atheism, and notes that only when they organize, will they have a voice loud enough to hear.

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Vignettes of the history of Fundamentalists Anonymous, a group that helps those who suffer at the hands of fundamentalists.

Some will recognize the many “one-liners” pulled from this text.  While this is not the full essay, I believe it to be the full chapter titled “The World As I See It”.

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Sam Harris and Rick Warren meet in a debate moderated by Newsweek’s Editor in Chief, Jon Meacham.

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Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan debate the rationality of religious faith.

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Journalist Nina Burleigh went to Israel to investigate a Biblical archaeology forgery case and encountered a curious commercial subculture where science is being harnessed to provide “proof” for believers, and where archaeology and politics are as intertwined as nesting snakes. Her book, Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land, was described by Time as “Sam Spade in the Holy Land,” and by the Wall Street Journal as a “lively account ...  also a springboard for her larger meditation on the field of biblical archaeology.”

A live performance of Frank Zappa playing Dumb all over, in Houston, TX.

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