I’ve come across this issue from a few angles quite a lot recently — what exactly is “spirit”? At least some religious folks, Protestant Christians in particular, seem to think that a “spirit” is some kind of autonomous or semi-autonomous… Continue Reading
Poe’s Law (internet version) is: “Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won’t mistake for the real thing.” In other words, if you parody an extreme… Continue Reading
I’ve written before, on many occasions, that there are only two kinds of prejudice that seem widely socially acceptable anymore in the United States — that directed against gay people, and that directed against atheists. Both sorts of prejudice take… Continue Reading
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you,… Continue Reading
The answer — conservative, evangelical Christians, particularly ones who are young and uneducated. Of course, these are likely the same people who think that Catholics are also not Christians. So take that for what it’s worth. Point is, it doesn’t… 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
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
However, Secretary Clinton is a Methodist and may well be forgiven by Catholics for not knowing the official RCC story — the image appeared miraculously on this guy’s cloak one day on a hill near Mexico City after he saw… 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