Pray at the pump. God will have mercy on us and lower gas prices. These people are serious — they have protests of gas prices by holding hands in a circle around gas pumps in suburban D.C. and pray, with… Continue Reading
In an interesting post, Kieran Bennett describes reviewing 114 stories of people who abandoned their faith (almost all of them former Christians). He could identify reasons in 94 of them. I am moderately surprised not at the reasons, but instead… Continue Reading
Now that Governor Mitt the Mormon isn’t running for President anymore, and doesn’t need to suck up to evangelical Christians, he can afford to be nice to atheists. Like apologizing for his remarks made during the campaign, which disaffected unbelieving… Continue Reading
Finally. In a lot of looking around to research a continuing legal education class I did recently on the subject of U.S. courts enforcing Muslim law (left over from February’s kerfuffle on that same subject) I could not find a… Continue Reading
Read the whole thing. It’s brilliant. Especially read this if you think atheists take joy in directing their criticism of religion to Christianity. Islam is at least as loopy a set of myths, and it taps in to a group… Continue Reading
I think it’s worth considering creation myths side by side because they all sound about equally improbable to me. Which of these is correct? None of them, of course; none explain readily-confirmable scientific phenomena like the age of the universe… Continue Reading
Yesterday, I ghostwrote an imaginary speech by Barack Obama denouncing Rev. Jeremiah Wright after his way-over-the-top remarks at the National Press Club. I suggested that Senator Obama say: Friends, I heard Rev. Wright yesterday at the National Press Club. I… Continue Reading
If I get sick, please don’t pray for me. Instead, get me to a doctor. Don’t do what the obviously very faithful Dale and Leilani Neumann of Weston, Wisconsin (a rural town near Wausau, smack dab in the middle of… Continue Reading
I’ve received some e-mails that offer what look like pretty viable defenses to this lawsuit. I’m not 100% sure they would win, but these are viable legal arguments against it. First, the civilian courts should not be the forum that… Continue Reading
This is all over the news today. Although some have been talking about it for a while. Here’s the facts: Jeremy Hall joined the Army for the same reasons anyone does — a desire to serve his countrymen and his… Continue Reading