Comments on: This is Hug an Atheist Day https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:06:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: armitando https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6630 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:06:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6630 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=91583619659

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6629 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:29:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6629 Barn Owl, thanks. I’d forgotten that George and his dad (the most sympathetic character in the book) were atheists. You’d think Forster had some sympathy for the reviled minority. 🙂 Consider yourself hugged.You, too, Elizabeth, for general coolness. Just don’t catch whatever I’ve got.And I’ll pat your shoulder, Romeo, even if Virgil won’t. [Sniff] I love all you guys.Okay, back to bed.

]]> By: Elizabeth https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6628 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:12:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6628 Atheists have always been cool in popular culture. But not since some time in the 1980s in the US. Thanks to the Fundies.

]]> By: Barn Owl https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6627 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:08:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6627 I was reminded, while watching a new adaptation of E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View last night, that the novel has a sympathetic and positive portrayal of an early 20th century atheist character. George Emerson, whom the heroine Lucy Honeychurch meets on a trip to Italy, and his father are atheists and socialists. George is recognized, in contrast to two men of the cloth, as “the good man”, at least by the Italian carriage-driver.

]]> By: Virgil Samms https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6626 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:28:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6626

And maybe a pat on the shoulder for agnostics?

I’m not sure about that.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6625 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:11:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6625 Badger: Good point. I usually avoid making people go to a registered site. The facebook link is really just for people who are already in facebook.Hug an atheist day does not require a lot of information, and in fact, there is no information on the face book site.Just go hug an atheist. Today.

]]> By: Badger3k https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6624 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:33:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6624 Anyway of putting up info that doesn’t require me to register for another useless site? It;s bad enough that I had to get a freaken’ myspace page so I could email somebody, and register for Blogger so I could post comments, but now I’m supposed to fall for Facebook as well? Too many clowns want me to register as it is. Any site that forces you to register before you can view a page…well, make that a big FU.

]]> By: Romeo Vitelli https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6623 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:23:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6623 And maybe a pat on the shoulder for agnostics?

]]> By: Reginald Selkirk https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6622 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:49:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/14/this-is-hug-an-atheist-day/#comment-6622 The missing five-minute Linux manual for morons

]]>