Each of the following are arguments that I or personal friends of mine have come across, in real life (or right here on this blog). People have really made these arguments, with a straight face and credulity. The responses to… Continue Reading
The atheosphere was all abuzz with news of a recent episode of Family Guy, “Not All Dogs Go To Heaven.” So I watched it last night. Yes, Brian the dog came out as an atheist in the face of another… Continue Reading
A lot of other law blogs have discussed this recent case. So have a lot of other atheist blogs. And of course, blogs by atheist lawyers have been all over it — except for mine, at least up until now.… Continue Reading
No shelter. When Steve Harvey goes on the Tyra Banks show and tells women not to date atheist men, he’s being a bigot: You sitting up there talking to a dude and he tells you he’s an atheist, you need… Continue Reading
There is no objective, external purpose to your existence. This is a good thing. Theists will tell you, again and again, that “God has a plan.” When something really awful happens to you, they tell you this as a means… Continue Reading
This search recently came in and I viewed it on the traffic feed: Foggia, Puglia arrived from google.it on “Not A Potted Plant: June 2007” by searching for If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would… Continue Reading
There are times I admire groups like Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the ACLU, or American Atheists. The ACLU often does principled work to protect individual freedoms and absorbs the blowback of unpopularity aimed its way by… Continue Reading
Religious and atheist blogs and websites will have much to twitter about today as the results of the new American Religious Identification Survey is released. This is a telephone survey of a sample size somewhere around fifty-five thousand people, which… Continue Reading
Today, I went to see Religuous, the anti-religious documentary with Bill Maher. It was a lot like seeing it in the theater because the house we saw it in has a home theater, with a big screen and a sophisticated… Continue Reading