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How Combative Atheism is Like The Gay Rights Movement, but Less Fabulous

For a while, I was enamored with the idea of aggressive non-believers like Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Bill Maher. Sure, every generation is becoming less religious, even if measured in p0rn downloads alone. Yet the non-believer must still lurk in the shadows – or risk being ‘the weird one’ in every room. Combative atheists offer those weirdos something special: balls. It parallels

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America’s Corrosive New Apartheid

From my ‘uncomfortable conversations’ file: Somewhere on the road to greatness, we took a wrong turn. We became The Divided Sects of America. There’s a corrosive separatism – or self-inflicted apartheid – tearing this country apart. Everyone splintered into separate tribes – tea party, black lives matter, 99%-ers, LGBT, atheists, religious right, pro-pot, anti-GMO, pro/anti-abortion, etc, etc.

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