Category Archives: religion

Putting NH's new alternative curricula law in context

Recently, my good buddy Jason Becker shared this arti­cle with me over here. An excerpt: New Hampshire’s Republican-dominated Leg­is­la­ture over­rode Demo­c­ra­tic Gov. John Lynch’s veto Wednes­day to enact a law let­ting par­ents request an alter­na­tive cur­ricu­lum for any sub­ject they object to, leg­is­la­tion that crit­ics say could limit children’s access to a com­pre­hen­sive and qual­ity edu­ca­tion. H.B. 542

what really is the rift that divides atheists?

Just the other day, NPR pub­lished an arti­cle that got quite a bit of atten­tion on Face­book: A Bit­ter Rift Divides Athe­ists. Basi­cally, it talks about the dif­fer­ence between “new athe­ism” of peo­ple like Richard Dawkins and Christo­pher Hitchens — “a more aggres­sive, often belit­tling pos­ture toward reli­gious believ­ers,” and more tol­er­ant forms of athe­ism.