Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.
Posts tagged atheism
Posted 2 years ago
Atheists aren’t a categorically different or more elite species of thinker. We just reject certain natural psychological intuitions„ such as the feeling that there must be a purpose to suffering, as being untrustworthy gauges of the reality outside our heads.
Posted 2 years ago
Hulu pulls Family Guy episode. Was it Atheism or Star Trek?
This is not the first time Hulu has had to pull an episode of a show, but what’s interesting about this one is the reaction the action provoked.
The Family Guy episode in question deals with two sub-plots: Atheism, and Star Trek. Now, which of these two is likely to have caused the pull? My bet would be on simple copyright issues, as stated by Hulu themselves, but some suspect the foul hand of Christian Fundamentalism at work.
This seemingly paranoid reaction may have something to do with past experience: the show South Park has often been the target of religion-based calls for episodes to be banned, both with regards to Islam as well as the cult of Scientology (and no, Scientology is not a religion no matter what you say).
It therefore should come as no surprise that, despite the availability of other perfectly reasonable explanations, people would choose to single out religion as the likely cause of this small act of censorship. Life, it would seem, is not without a sense of irony.
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