Godless episode 32: Charity, Morality, Determinism
Episode 32: September 16, 2009
Rob and Dave kick off season 3 of Godless with a chat about charitable atheists, blasphemy, the origins of morality and determinism.
- Today's topics and links:
- Opening music: (Are We Losing) Faith, by Silence Is Sexy
- Live show now Wednesday 3-4PM, Eastern time
- Blasphemy Day, and CFI's celebrations
- Why blasphemy is not hate speech, or an attack on religious people
- A blasphemous catch-22
- More on the Irish blasphemy law
- Richard Dawkins at U of T
- The online dating world likes atheists, dislikes God
- Microloan charitable organization Kiva's atheist donors form their largest and most generous group of donors
- Where do Atheists get their morality? See also Godless episode 2: Ethics, Pascal's Wager
- Selective scripture
- Are we just "programmed" to act the way we do?
- An awesome TED talk on how we read each other's minds
- What's so bad about determinism?

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