Does the National Day of Prayer violate the Establishment Clause? I.Legal Framing Of Question This is the basic, straight-ahead question asked bya lawsuit filed Friday by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Although the complaint details various permutations of the theory,… Continue Reading
Christians. Or at least, some of them who subscribe to some of the more transparently false kinds of “theologies”. See – there’s plenty of blame to go around!
The phrase “in God we trust” first appeared on United States currency today. In 1957. “In God We Trust” did not appear on the money used by the Founders. Consider, for example, this image of a Revolutionary-era paper note for… Continue Reading
A friend from Tennessee asked in an online forum: If someone could articulate the distinction between the two parties, I would love to know. It would be lovely to have a major party that I could believe in. Also, it… Continue Reading
What if all candidates for political office gave messages like these? Hello, I’m Daniel Martin Smith. I believe that I have an invisible dragon in my garage. It can heat my house in the winter and it helps my children… Continue Reading
Having a sudden rash of deaths in my social circle and family over the past few days has got me thinking. In our western tradition, religions teach that a deity acts as a moral judge. The Christian myth of the… Continue Reading
Yesterday, California’s Supreme Court issued a decision that ordered a fertility clinic to make its artificial insemination services equally available to a lesbian as it did to a straight woman. This means that the lesbian will now be able to… Continue Reading
Officially, the People’s Republic of China advocates atheism on the part of its citizens, and you might think that as an atheist myself, I would approve. I do not. My atheism is a personal matter, not one arrived at as… Continue Reading
When even local churchgoing folk complain about the local judge invoking religion in the courtroom, chances are you’ve gone too far. And that’s the reason that Covington County Circuit Judge Ashley McKathan of Andalusia, Alabama has to answer to the… Continue Reading
Read, if you dare, a compelling illustration of how religion, child abuse, and rank bigotry can be melded together and glossed over by a congregation that sees only an outward expression of piety rather than a rotten core. The worst… Continue Reading