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I am looking for anecdotes about family behavior and traditions around the birth of a child.
When a child is born in your family, what happens next?
How long is it before (nearby) family typically meets the newborn child?
Is it traditional for family members who live nearby to give some kind of help to the [...]

Slavoj Žižek makes a very interesting defense of atheism in the editorial “Defenders of the Faith” (New York Times, 3/12/06). Certainly atheism deserves the restoration of the inherent dignity of its position. But his overall argument, at least in the context of our current realities, is flawed. It could be a readerly effect, since the [...]