I live and teach in middle Tennessee, up the pike from creationist ground zero in Dayton. Many of my closest friends, students, and other acquaintances are happily good without god.
But at least since the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, Tennessee has suffered a rooted and growing reputation as a backwater of H.L. Mencken's "booboisie." This site offers a forum for Tennesseans who affirm reason, reject superstition, and believe in human intelligence.
The dialogue here will be civil and positive, intended not mainly to impugn or destroy theism but to extol nontheism in all its free variety: humanism, naturalism, secularism...
I'm very much looking forward to reading and attempting to keep up with your awesome posts and this progressive blog. See you in the Fall, Dr. Oliver! :)
ReplyDelete(It's also really refreshing to know that I now have a place to direct my nontheist friends if they start feeling alone in Tennessee. This state does have that unjustifiable, blatantly offensive flavor of Christianity...)
Thanks, Kat, and congrats on being the first commenter. Please do direct friends this way, and share your own contributions. (In fact, be an official "contributor" if you want.) Strength resides in numbers and solidarity. Fun, too.
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