Longtime readers know that I am not a believer in the supernatural and critical of religion. I must restrain myself from cheering on other critics of religion from time to time, but today it was easier than in other circumstances… Continue Reading
The Washington Post Writers Group is not distributing two comics drawn by Berkeley Breathed, for fear of offending Muslims. I call B.S. on that. Read the comics for yourself here. Islam is at least as vulnerable to being lampooned for… Continue Reading
No, I’m not going to tell you that Mother Teresa was an atheist. I’m going to tell you that she was a humanist. The headline on FARK overstates the article substantially — Mother Teresa was not an atheist, as suggested,… Continue Reading
One of my great intellectual heroes has written about a disturbing phenomenon: courts using the religious activities of a parent as a factor in deciding child custody disputes. Churchgoing parents are, in many states, more likely to be awarded custody… Continue Reading
I’m often challenged in my atheism – invariably by very religious types, often by a subset of religious types, who have bought in to the religious argument that “there is no such thing as an atheist.”* They ask me to… Continue Reading
A lot of religionists would like to believe that while people occasionally have struggles with their faith, they always return to God. It’s not so, as this reporter for the Fish Wrapper describes in a moving and deeply personal story… Continue Reading
An interesting set of questions from the Friendly Atheist. The key here is to have short, concise, honest, and meaningful answers to the questions. Here goes: Why do you not believe in God? Because there is no evidence indicating God’s… Continue Reading
I got forwarded a very old bit of urban legend e-mail today, the one about Pepsi omitting the words “under God” from the pledge of allegiance on new cans of its products. This bit of falsity has been circulating since… Continue Reading
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles won judicial approval yesterday for a settlement of $660 million to be spread out amongst 508 plaintiffs who claimed they had been raped by priests as children. Note that I use the term “rape” rather… Continue Reading
Not a lot of thoughts recently about religion or atheism. But things have a way of popping up again in multiple references, closely clustered together in time. Yesterday, I saw a very amusing movie about kids in an evangelical high… Continue Reading