1. Before the New Atheists: Confessions of a Lonely Atheist

Comment #56511 by smart-bean on July 16, 2007 at 5:02 am

Here's another article by the same person, with a rather more confrontational tone

http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/angier_24_5.htm

2. Television evangelist Falwell dies at 73

Comment #41405 by smart-bean on May 16, 2007 at 5:01 am

I have it on very reliable evidence that Falwell admitted as he was dying that he knew there was not god.

3. The God Delusion

Comment #36420 by smart-bean on May 1, 2007 at 4:41 am

To all who are bashing the "hidden" pro-Objectivist slant of the article, a question: what would *you* offer as an alternative to religiously-inspired morality? What do you offer as the source of the common moral code that we need to live peacefully together?

4. Neil Peart cites The God Delusion in new album's liner notes

Comment #28406 by smart-bean on March 29, 2007 at 4:54 am

I found Rush's Ayn Rand references to be a positive thing.

Those who dismiss her writing and philosophy might like to consider that I know four atheists who were brought to atheism by reading Ayn Rand. Also, much libertarian thought in the US owes its existence to people inspired by Ayn Rand.

Neither Ayn Rand nor her ideas are perfect, but they are an excellent antidote to convention-bound thinking from both the religious right and the doctrinaire left.