I’m driving home after an enormously stressful day at work. My conservative buddy calls me up on the way, so I pull over and take the call. (Unlike Maria Shriver, I’m ready to concede that the no-cell-phone-while-driving law applies to… Continue Reading
For your bemusement on a Saturday, and because you’re probably tired by now of Meghan McCain’s breasts and wondering whether the saga of Balloon Boy was a hoax, I offer a smörgåsbord of internet-based bizarreness: Lady Gaga is really the… Continue Reading
Biblical cherry picking doesn’t come any more awfully ironic than this. A better example of using religion to cloak naked, indefensible bigotry and hate is difficult to imagine. Regardless of whether the wearer of this tattoo had read Leviticus 19:28, his… Continue Reading
The latest piece of utter ridiculousness credited to religion comes from Egypt, where hyper-conservative Muslims have their panties in a wad over a new device which they are convinced will erode the moral and very foundations of their society. The… Continue Reading
The Establishment Clause case I’ve been keeping my eye on, Salazar v. Buono, will be orally briefed before the Supreme Court today. The case involves a large but not huge Christian cross on a hill located within the Mojave National… Continue Reading
You get out of your mind only the products of what you put into it. That’s why, even if you don’t believe everything you read, what you read still has something of an influence on how you think. If you’re… Continue Reading
You would think that after all this time on the Internets, I wouldn’t succumb to the temptation to engage Christian apologetics. But sometimes I can’t help myself. And so I found myself stumbling across a guy who claims that there… Continue Reading
In a rather remarkable Q&A session from October of 2006, Richard Dawkins is asked what to a believer must have seemed like a rather poignant question: “What if you’re wrong?” We have to contextualize, and then unpack, that question a… Continue Reading
That is, Justice Scalia believes the government should promote religion as opposed to non-religion (emphasis added): It has not been our American constitutional tradition, nor our social and legal tradition, to exclude religion from the public sphere. Whatever the Establishment… Continue Reading
I know that an intellectual critique of Ray Comfort is kind of like gravity-testing lead weights in terms of intellectual challenge. The lead is going to fall, and Comfort is going to be demonstrably ignorant. But this lovely young Romanian… Continue Reading