No, I’m not coming out as an atheist! It’s no secret that I and Canadian Atheist are atheists. However, Greta Christina, whose newest book is entitled Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why, knows it is very difficult for some people to come out as an atheist: In… Read more »
“Our Flag, Our Fire: ORANGE” « Notre drapeau, notre flamme : ORANGE » I will be in Montreal for Fierté Montréal, the Montreal Pride Parade, which will be held on Sunday, August 17, 2014, beginning at 13:00. The parade will start on the corner of Guy Street and travel east on René-Lévesque Boulevard, culminating on… Read more »
As a person who requires evidence to be convinced about the reality of things, I reject dualism: the position that mental phenomena are, in some respects,non-physical, or that the mind and body are not identical. Thus, it encompasses a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, and is contrasted with other positions, such as physicalism, in the mind–body problem. I reject this notion… Read more »