Archive for the 'Social' Category
Posted: Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 @ 9:06 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Children, Friends, Parenting, Secular, Social | 8 Comments »
The Article
I never did tell you about the article I wrote for the Humanist Network News back in March for their Secular Parenting column. Here’s how it starts…
The “Out” Parent
I walked into my child’s preschool one day right before class was to let out. There was a lobby full of parents and one of [...]
Posted: Sunday, March 25th, 2007 @ 7:19 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Ethics, Evolution, Mortality, News, Religion, Science, Social | 14 Comments »
If you’ve been reading AgnosticMom for a long time then you know about my position on morality and ethics. While most religious people think morality comes from their god and some non-believers think it is purely a social construct, others of us (including myself) believe that humans have an innate moral sense which is [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 @ 9:17 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Blog, Family, Social | 26 Comments »
A lot of you have asked me to address the topic of social interaction as a non-believer. Let me start with the topic of “coming out” to those who always knew us as a religious church-goer; to those who are likely to see major changes in us and wonder why. We can talk [...]
Posted: Sunday, December 10th, 2006 @ 5:29 pm in Children, Parenting, Social | 7 Comments »
The fun thing about having a party for a nine-year-old is that the children are old enough for us to do away with the balloons and instead go for more authentic Harry Potter-type decor. Yet they are young enough to delve into their imaginations and and put themselves into the story.
We had a lot [...]
Posted: Sunday, October 15th, 2006 @ 7:39 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Children, Parenting, Religion, Social | 52 Comments »
I cannot wait to hear everyone’s opinion on this one. I picked up Blake from school and he handed me a flyer for The Good News Club, saying he’d like to join. In case you’re not from a more religious part of the country or world, this is a Christian club. Blake’s [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 @ 9:17 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Children, Parenting, Religion, Social | 16 Comments »
I need to clear up some misinformation. After publishing my post, When Religious People Teach Religion To My Non-religious Children, Sadie made the following comment:
I have a feeling that, like most instances in dealing with children, your kids did not portray the real picture of the situation. What I imagine really happened is that [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 @ 4:31 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Children, Parenting, Rants, Religion, Social | 26 Comments »
I thought we would avoid religious lessons to my kids while we were on our recent Cancun trip because we returned on Saturday evening instead of Sunday. No need for them to go to church with the sitter while we were gone. I looked forward to that change, although I expected my brother [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 @ 7:50 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Humanism, Parenting, Secular, Social | 2 Comments »
Did you know today is World Humanist Day? Me neither. At least not until I read this article in the Humanist Network News.
I have an idea of what you can do to celebrate it. Some of my articles are now up and running on ClubMom. You can rate them and leave [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 14th, 2006 @ 6:44 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Ethics, Humanism, Morals, Parenting, Secular, Social | 17 Comments »
Perhaps “arbitrary” was the wrong word to use when I wrote last month’s article for the Humanist Network News.
Ben is right. Religious leaders did (do) not just throw a dart on the wall to randomly pick rules of conduct. But many of the rules sure seem arbitrary, especially when you see headlines like [...]
Posted: Friday, May 19th, 2006 @ 4:35 pm in Ethics, Morals, Secular, Social | 43 Comments »
Have you been following the on-going discussion in my earlier post, A System For Morality? It’s good to know we have some very educated and thoughtful readers here.
We’ve gone into some more complicated specifics and I feel I the need to break my system down into its smallest parts. Please excuse [...]