By Tom Riddering Quick! What do eggs, flowers, the East, maidens dancing around phallic symbols, the vernal equinox, fecund rabbits, chicks, flowers, Mardi Gras, estrus cycles, and Christianity all have in common? SEX! Well, Christians actually call it Easter, named after Eastre, the Germanic fertility goddess, which comes from the Read more
By Ryan Sutter On Wednesday, March 4th, Richard Dawkins delivered a lecture at the Northrup Auditorium in Minneapolis. The title of his lecture was The Purpose of Purpose. The main questions he addressed were: – Why Darwinian natural selection would create a mind that sees purpose and goals everywhere, and Read more
By James Zimmerman Don’t arrive late for Watchmen. The first ten minutes, featuring a gasp-inducing fight sequence that doesn’t flinch which segues into a back-story montage set perfectly to Dylan’s Times They are A-Changing, are the best ten minutes of the film. But Zack Snyder’s long-awaited screen adaptation of the Read more
By Mike Haubrich Atheists Talk continues to be an important outreach, but the expense of paying for the show is rather high. We have tried an experiment at the request of KTNF, to see if a dialog between an atheist and a theist would generate a larger audience. The first Read more
By James Zimmerman At the March 15th meetings, attendees were treated to Scott Lohman’s presentation of “The Humanism of Star Trek”. As both the President of the Humanists of Minnesota and a life-long Star Trek fan, Scott was certainly qualified to deliver such a presentation. And he didn’t just talk Read more