There’s Never Been A Miracle Like The Airport Up In Knock
Considering that Ireland is a traditionally Catholic and traditionally very musical country, it’s surprising how little the Emerald Isle’s traditional Catholicism has impinged on its traditional music....
View ArticleAlfred Russel Wallace And The Origin Of “The Origin Of Species”
In 1858, Charles Darwin was a well-regarded English naturalist sitting on one of the most important ideas in the history of Western thought, namely evolution by natural selection. He had been gathering...
View ArticleGarry Trudeau N’est Pas Charlie
I’ve never found Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury comic strip to be either laugh-out-loud funny or brilliantly incisive, and it’s been years since I read it at all regularly, but I do appreciate the strip’s...
View ArticleIreland Says No, Yes, And To Hell With The Church
Last week, the Republic of Ireland held a referendum in which voters stood up for tradition and overwhelmingly rejected an unprecedented change to an important and long-standing institution. The...
View ArticleThe Veritable Superpower Of Super-Recognition
The BBC has been impressing me lately with a series of articles called BBC Future. They’re well-written, seemingly well-informed explanations of topics in science and technology, many of which should...
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The Meaning Of Atheism, Part 1: Clearing The Air
Atheists tend to be a gloriously disputatious bunch, which is not surprising for a group united only by rejection of the blandishments and superficial consolations of religion. Atheists, it sometimes...
View ArticleThe Meaning Of Atheism, Part 2: Three Ways To Lack Belief
Is an atheist someone who doesn’t believe in gods, or someone who believes there are no gods? It’s a hairline distinction, irrelevant for most practical purposes, but there clearly is a theoretical...
View ArticleNocturnal Adventures Of A Skeptic
I was walking down a hallway on an upper floor of a fading, run-down apartment building, with a set of keys in my hand. I don’t remember why I was there, except that it had to do with laundry. I was...
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The Meaning Of Atheism, Part 3: The Meaning Of Agnosticism
In both Part I and Part II of this very intermittent series, I argued that the terms “agnosticism” and “atheism” were best used to describe distinct and mutually exclusive, though vaguely delineated,...
View ArticleHappy Holy-Ween?
If you thought Halloween was just a harmless occasion for dressing up like your favourite celebrity while skull-shaped celestial objects hurtled past overhead, think again. Experts understand that this...
View ArticleWar On Christmas: The Battle Of Starbucks
Here at Canadian Atheist we’ve been diligently preparing for the War on Christmas, but in the United States an opening skirmish has already taken place. Starbucks, that fount of decent enough coffee...
View ArticleRex Murphy On Institutes Of Higher Whining
I seem to have more time for Rex Murphy than do most CA writers and commenters. I don’t always agree with the man, but I appreciate his acerbic writing and his crusty, canny sensibilities. Even when...
View ArticleAux Armes, Canadiens?
After the recent Islamic State (also known as ISIL, ISIS and Daesh) attacks in Paris, France’s atheist President François Hollande was quick to vow to destroy the jihadist caliphate (full French...
View ArticleDavid Suzuki Will Kiss The Pope Anywhere He (The Pope) Wants
David Suzuki has raised eyebrows, we’re told, by deploying a colourful analogy in the course of a discussion about greenhouse gas emissions. As Maclean’s reports, Suzuki doesn’t have much time for Brad...
View ArticleMuch Ado About Comments
If you have something to say regarding news stories about indigenous people, the CBC doesn’t want to hear it until next year. Canada’s public broadcaster has taken what “Acting director of digital...
View ArticleWhen In Rome
When in Rome, one is supposed to do as the Romans do. Children know this, but the memo appears to have bypassed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani: Mr Rouhani and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi...
View ArticleDawkins And NECSS: An Update And Some Thoughts
You can love Richard Dawkins or you can hate him, but you can’t say he’s anything but a gentleman and a scholar. His response to being disinvited as a featured speaker by NECSS (short for Northeast...
View ArticleAnd Shub-Niggurath For PM
I’m not, generally speaking, the kind of Canadian who gets too caught up in the three-ring circus of U.S. presidential elections. The marathon campaigns that go on south of the border may be one of the...
View ArticleAn Unsermon For Palm Sunday
Any lesser prophet would have merely galloped into the city on a white horse, but Jesus had other ideas for his final one-way trip from Jericho to Jerusalem. The beginning of the 21st chapter of the...
View ArticleEx Libris: Jonathan Haidt, “The Righteous Mind” (Part I)
One of the more interesting things I read during Canadian Atheist’s recent stint in the infirmary was The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion, by the American...
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