On May 3 of this year I gave a lecture at a meeting of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Raleigh NC. The lecture is about what it is like to be an agnostic who writes about religion. Thats an irony that I am constantly aware of and most of the lecture is about my experience as a non-religious person who is an expert in something he doesnt believe in. I also used the lecture to stress that being free from religion is not the same thing as attacking religion. I absolutely agree with the founding principle of the FFRF that no religion (of any kind, Christian or otherwise) should be imposed on us by the state. But I do not at *all* think that this is the same thing as being opposed to religion. I am personally not opposed to religion or people who practice it (although I *am* quite definitely opposed to fundamenalist kinds of religion -- whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or whatever). And I think organized agnostic/atheist/secular/humanist attacks on religion per se are wrong-headed and (just as important) counter-productive. In any event, I get into all that in my lecture, found here: Please adjust gear icon for 720p High-Definition: To see this and other posts in ehrmanblog.org/freedom-from-religion-foundation-lecture/ and join the blog by clicking the Register button!
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:53:50 +0000
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