Today, I think that I did one of the most helpful things I have ever done with respect to greater acceptance of atheists in broader society, and it happened on a conservative, Republican blog. I won’t link or mention the particular blog (I don’t really want to give them the traffic), but this moment was [...]
20 July, 2009
Categories: Atheism, Blogging, Conservatives, Philosophy, Religion . Tags: acceptance, Atheism, Blogging, Religion . Author: Matt Pearl . Comments: 3 Comments
So… it turns out that I define “Morality” entirely differently than theists, which shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone, now that I think of it, but I got into an interesting conversation about the nature and definition of morality itself. My opponent (I think of it as a debate) believed that universal, objective morality [...]
16 April, 2009
Categories: Creationism, Evolution, Fallacies, History, Philosophy, Religion, Science . Tags: Atheism, Christianity, Morality, Naturalism, Religion, Science . Author: Matt Pearl . Comments: 4 Comments
So, my room mate directed me to a great website run by Cambridge University entitled “Investigating Atheism.” It is a great source for unbiased information about Atheism and its history, just thought I’d let you know.
Just so you know, I’m preparing for both the LSAT and the GRE, so my writing will continue to be [...]
25 July, 2008
Categories: Philosophy, Religion . Tags: Atheism, Religion . Author: Matt Pearl . Comments: 1 Comment
Well… I found a new facebook application complete with polls and debate… so I’ve been playing around that as well as surfing around teh interwebs looking for news stories. Well, being me, I wound up arguing about things such as Intelligent Design and religion and came to the conclusion that people don’t [...]
22 June, 2008
Categories: Idiots, Philosophy, Religion . Tags: Atheism, Religion, Society . Author: Matt Pearl . Comments: 3 Comments
If there is something that the people who know me know, I am a real stickler for logic and reasoning. That is, I will generally not believe something unless there is necessary and sufficient evidence for that belief. For example, I am not going to believe in Russell’s Teapot because there is [...]
6 December, 2007
Categories: About Me, Fallacies, Philosophy, Religion . Tags: Atheism, Fallacies, Religion . Author: Matt Pearl . Comments: 2 Comments
Well… I decided that I wanted to start a political blog about anything that I want to talk about.
A bit about me…
I’m a student at the University of Georgia (class of 2009), and I am studying Political Science and Economics. Politically, I call myself a Libertarian Environmentalist. I believe that government only [...]
26 June, 2007
Categories: About Me, Randomness . Tags: Atheism, Religion, Theism, Tolearance . Author: Matt Pearl . Comments: Leave a Comment