Here Comes the Jesus Project
Saturday March 31, 2007
What really happened at the origins of Christianity? Did Jesus really exist and, if so, is anything he taught or said actually contained in the writings which Christians eventually included ... Read More
Atheist Banned from Religious Education Committee
Saturday March 31, 2007
Can atheists and humanists have anything useful to contribute to discussions about religious education? I think so, but not everyone agrees with me including a majority of members of ... Read More
Myth: Church/State Separation Infringes on Free Speech, Religious Freedom
Saturday March 31, 2007
The right of individual citizens to promote their religion and proselytize others is protected in two ways: first as a form of free speech, and second as the free exercise ... Read More
Lee Randolph: Deconversion from Christianity
Friday March 30, 2007
Many atheists have their own, personal stories about how they left religion behind, what the process was like, and how they coped with such major changes. It's always interesting to ... Read More
Gods & Theists Behave Immorally: How Can Moral Gods Behave Immorally?
Friday March 30, 2007
In most religions, gods are supposed to be the source of all morality. For most believers, their religion represents an institution for promoting an ideal model of morality. In reality, ... Read More
Harassment of Atheist Students in Public School
Friday March 30, 2007
As the most distrusted, despised minority in America, it shouldnt be surprising that atheist students in public schools can experience various forms of harassment from some of the good, moral ... Read More
Myth: Atheists, Like Communists, Want to Alter America's Religious History
Friday March 30, 2007
One of the most popular defenses of government-sponsored, government-financed, and government-maintained displays of religion or religious expression is to argue that these displays really only serve to honor the historical ... Read More
Faith-Based Marriage Counseling Keeps Funding by Dropping Religion
Thursday March 29, 2007
A federal court recently dismissed a challenge made against a faith-based marriage counseling scheme, but the religious organization only seems to have won because they got smart: after the lawsuit ... Read More
Philosophy of Politics & Law: Philosophy of Governance, Justice, Society, Force
Thursday March 29, 2007
Most atheists recognize that the separation of church and state are important to their ability to be free of having religion imposed upon them. Not all realize that separation is ... Read More
What is Reasonable Evidence?
Thursday March 29, 2007
Most Christian apologists think that they have "reasonable evidence" for the truth of Christianity evidence that would convince any reasonable, open-minded person to accept Christianity as their religion. Most ... Read More
Myth: You're Not Really an Atheist, You Just Want to be Contrary
Thursday March 29, 2007
There are many popular myths about atheists which portray them as not really being serious about disbelieving, while other myths suggest atheists are in denial about what they really think. ... Read More
Christian Screams, Turns Down Hugs from Atheists
Wednesday March 28, 2007
Atheists have a generally negative public image. Not only are they the most distrusted and despised minority in America, but people commonly regard atheists as grumpy, humorless, and angry. What ... Read More
Revealing Your Atheism: Should You Come Out of the Closet as an Atheist?
Wednesday March 28, 2007
Many atheists hide their atheism from friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family because they are afraid of the reactions of others if they find out. So many religious theists, especially Christians, ... Read More
Christian Family Values vs. Dutch Family Values
Wednesday March 28, 2007
Conservative evangelical Christians in America can be very vocal about the importance of "family values" and especially about how only their religious beliefs can provide a secure basis for ... Read More
Forum Discussion: Prove the Existence of a Historical Figure
Wednesday March 28, 2007
When atheists express doubt over the existence of Jesus, a common rejoinder from Christians is to ask if atheists can prove the existence of any famous person from ancient history. ... Read More
Indiana Trusts in God, Underwrites Trust in God
Tuesday March 27, 2007
Most states have "specialty" license plates which publicize some cause or organization. Such plates cost extra money, both to cover the extra cost of creating them and to benefit the ... Read More
Philosophy of Religion: Philosophy of Religious Belief, Theism, Practice
Tuesday March 27, 2007
The Philosophy of Religion is the philosophical study of religious beliefs, religious doctrines, religious arguments and religious history. The line between theology and the philosophy of religion and theology isnt ... Read More
How to Oppress Conservative Christians
Tuesday March 27, 2007
It's far too common to see and hear conservative evangelical Christians complain that they are being oppressed when all that's happening is that people are being allowed to do things ... Read More
Book of the Week: The Reason Driven Life: What Am I Here on Earth For?
Tuesday March 27, 2007
Rick Warren is one of the most popular and well-known evangelical ministers in America today. His relaxed style and delivery has ensured him a positive reputation even beyond the traditional ... Read More
Ten Commandments & Christianity
Monday March 26, 2007
All over America, Christians have been working to install Ten Commandments monuments and displays in various places of government oversight: public squares, schools, town councils, court houses, etc. They have ... Read More
Bush is Better than Churchill: Bush Has God On His Side
Monday March 26, 2007
President George W. Bush seems fond of comparing himself to other leaders in history, especially Winston Churchill. There is, however, at least one area where Bush apparently considers himself to ... Read More
Weekly Poll: Are Christians Persecuted in America?
Monday March 26, 2007
Christians Defending, Justifying, Endorsing Torture
Sunday March 25, 2007
Image © Austin Cline
Original Poster:
Northwestern University
Religious and political conservatives don't like to be described as advocates of torture and for this reason it's common to see them twist words in ... Read More
Philosophy of History: Philosophy of Historical Events & Historical Processes
Sunday March 25, 2007
The Philosophy of History is the study of history, writing about history, and what impact history has upon the present day. It can be referred to as the Critical, Analytical, ... Read More
Who Doesn't Believe in Atheists?
Sunday March 25, 2007
Is it true that atheists really exist? The answer to this question should be easy and obvious, but apparently it's a really tough concept for some religious theists. Despite the ... Read More
Myth: Atheists Don't Want to be Exposed to Religion, Religious Beliefs in Public
Sunday March 25, 2007
Many opponents of church / state separation attempt to reframe the debate from being about permissible government support of religion to permissible public exposure of religion. This may seem like ... Read More
What Do Unbelievers Believe In?
Saturday March 24, 2007
The fact that atheists don't believe in any gods seems to cause no end of confusion for some theists. Their belief in some god can occupy such a central and ... Read More
Godless Atheists & Holidays: How Should Atheists Deal with Holidays, Rituals?
Saturday March 24, 2007
Holidays can serve to form a connection to your own past by evoking memories of past celebration. Holidays can form and reinforce connections with the friends and family with whom ... Read More
Seeing Religion from the Outside
Saturday March 24, 2007
It's a simple and sad fact that people find it easy to spot flaws, errors, and inconsistencies in other people's religion, but not any of the same flaws, errors, and ... Read More
Myth: Atheists Have No Reason to Care About Others, No Basis for Feeling Love
Saturday March 24, 2007
This myth may appear to be incoherent - what do atoms have to do with caring about others? - but it's an expression of a popular theistic argument against atheistic ... Read More
Are Atheistic Critiques of Religion 'Vicious'?
Friday March 23, 2007
As the profile of atheists' criticism of religion, religious beliefs, and theism rises, objections from theists increase in intensity. Although the objections come in many different forms, two consistent themes ... Read More
Godless Marriage, Families, Children: Atheist Families Don't Need Religion, God
Friday March 23, 2007
America's Christian Right invests a lot of effort arguing for a connection between family values and their religion, but what basic family values require their religion or belief in their ... Read More
Atheist Overlords Dominate, Control Public Discourse
Friday March 23, 2007
As part of the effort to portray atheists as militant, fundamentalist, and extremist, some religious theists try to claim that atheists are somehow "dominating" public discourse about religion. The truth ... Read More
Myth: Atheists Want to Impose their Secular Religion on America & Christians
Friday March 23, 2007
There is a popular belief with America's Christian Right that secularism is really an atheistic conspiracy and, in essence, an attempt by atheists to impose a secular religion on America. ... Read More
James Dobson and the Christian Right Today
Thursday March 22, 2007
Most leaders of the Christian Right have fallen by the side of the road over the years few disappear entirely, but those who stick around have much less power ... Read More
Atheists, Secularism, Secular Government: Why Atheists Care About Secularism
Thursday March 22, 2007
There is nothing about atheism which requires that one care about secularism. In practice, secularism and secular government are foundations for religious liberty in society. This protects irreligious atheists who ... Read More
Do Religious Liberals Provide Cover for Religious Extremists?
Thursday March 22, 2007
One issue which has been drawing more conflict between irreligious atheists and religious believers is whether religious liberals and moderates provide "cover" for religious fundamentalists and extremists. Religious believers object ... Read More
Human Rights for the 21st Century: Technological Self-Determination
Thursday March 22, 2007
Public discussion about ethics is typically dominated by the voices of religious leaders and institutions. Because so many people assume that ethics and morality cannot exist without religion, religious voices ... Read More
Myth: Atheism as Rebellion Against Parents & Family, Against Family Religion
Thursday March 22, 2007
Most people acquire their religion through the influence of their families whatever religion one's parents and siblings belong to, that is the religion a person learns about from their ... Read More
"Militant Atheist" Rhetoric is Rhetoric of Fear, Hate
Wednesday March 21, 2007
An increasing number of religious theists primarily Christians, I think have been complaining about so-called "militant" atheists. Apparently, all that's necessary to be a "militant" these days is ... Read More
Atheism & Naturalism: Atheists Should Focus on Naturalism & Science
Wednesday March 21, 2007
Many atheists object to the labels 'atheist' and 'atheism"' for who they are and what they believe. They don't object because such labels inaccurate - they don't dispute that they ... Read More
Are Atheists the Real Theocrats?
Wednesday March 21, 2007
Atheists commonly express the concern that an increasing involvement of religion in public government will increase the ease by which America might become more theocratic. It happens often that atheists' ... Read More
Myth: Atheists Are Just Angry That They Aren't God, Can't Make All the Rules
Wednesday March 21, 2007
Sometimes people who dont believe in any gods are accused of actually wanting to be God themselves. This may be because some religious theists place their god in charge of ... Read More
Coatesville Turned Council Meetings into Religious Revivals
Tuesday March 20, 2007
The intrusion of religious rituals into government business is probably more widespread than most people realize. In local communities where most people are Christian, and almost everyone is a theist ... Read More
Should Atheists Eliminate All Religious Influences From their Lives?
Tuesday March 20, 2007
For most atheists, simply not being religious and not participating in any overly religious rituals or activities is sufficient. For some atheists, though, there is the feeling that any connection ... Read More
Phil Nichols: Using 'New Atheism' to Misrepresent Atheists & Atheism
Tuesday March 20, 2007
A popular tactic with critics of atheism and atheists is a clear refusal to engage atheism directly. Rather than address what atheists say and the criticisms they offer of religion, ... Read More
Book of the Week: God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
Tuesday March 20, 2007
Does God exist or not? That tends to be the central disagreement between atheists and theists, though the actual arguments themselves have typically been focused on logic, philosophy, and theology. ... Read More
Christians Opposed to Jesus: When Christians Won't Turn the Other Cheek
Monday March 19, 2007
It should go without saying that Christians do not all agree when it comes to politics, but the implications of this are not always fully appreciated. Some Christians base their ... Read More
Atheism, Science, Evolution: Is Atheism Based on Science, Evolution?
Monday March 19, 2007
Atheism is commonly associated with science, which should be a good thing - right? What's wrong with science? It says something about the ideology and attitudes of some religious believers ... Read More
Is Biblical Illiteracy in America a Problem?
Monday March 19, 2007
Americans are, apparently, a pretty ignorant lot. Surveys showing how little Americans know about basic history, science, and math show up so often that it's difficult to work up much ... Read More
Weekly Poll: Would You Torture a Baby to Bring Peace to Humanity?
Monday March 19, 2007
Bigoted Attacks on Pete Stark
Sunday March 18, 2007
When I first wrote about Rep. Pete Stark publicly revealing his atheism, I also noted that there would probably be attacks against him because of it and, furthermore, that his ... Read More
Why Should Atheists Care About Establishment Clause Cases?
Sunday March 18, 2007
The First Amendment to the Constitution reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." the phrase "respecting an establishment of religion" ... Read More
Christian Leader Blames Jews for the Holocaust
Sunday March 18, 2007
Anti-semitism has deep and strong roots in Christianity. A certain level of anti-Semitism is almost inevitable because Christianity is based on the idea that God sent them a messiah whom ... Read More
You Must Be an Atheist Because You've Never Heard About Jesus and the Gospel
Sunday March 18, 2007
There seems to be a belief on the part of many theists - especially Christians and some Muslims - that the only reason why a person would not be a ... Read More
Suzanne Fields: Apologist for Anti-Atheist Bigotry
Saturday March 17, 2007
It's almost unheard of to read opinion columns in newspapers or magazines which promulgate bigotry and misconceptions about most minorities. It's not difficult, though, to find such opinion columns about ... Read More
Do Christians Really Want to Make Religion an Election/Political Issue?
Saturday March 17, 2007
Christians act like they want to make religion a public issue for elections and political purposes. Everything in their rhetoric points in this direction: they complain that atheists try to ... Read More
Atheism in the Czech Republic
Saturday March 17, 2007
I have written several times about the state of atheism and religion in the Czech Republic. Currently the Czechs appear to be the most atheistic population in Europe and ... Read More
Myth: Atheists Can't Have Close Families, Close Relationships, Without God
Saturday March 17, 2007
The idea that there is anything about atheism which would prevent a person from being close to their family is bizarre, at least initially. Perhaps even most religious theists recognize ... Read More
YMCA Rejects Atheist Camp for Kids
Friday March 16, 2007
Camp Quest is a secular summer camp program that provides not just traditional camping experiences for atheist, agnostic, humanist, and skeptical kids, but also offers classes and education relating to ... Read More
Christian Churches Deny Universal Human Rights
Friday March 16, 2007
The concept of "universal human rights" is usually described and conceived of in generally secular terms. Many religious believers and Christians in particular can be found insisting that ... Read More
Myth: Atheistic Evolution Cannot Account for the Human Conscience
Friday March 16, 2007
If religious theists are unable to demonstrate that atheists cannot justify a morality outside of the existence of their god, then some switch to arguing that our desire to have ... Read More
New Jersey Principal Uses Graduation Ceremony to Promote Christianity
Thursday March 15, 2007
The Newark public school district is being sued by the New Jersey chapter of the ACLU because the school decided that the graduation ceremonies would be a good time to ... Read More
Pornography: Free Market vs. Conservative Christian Values
Thursday March 15, 2007
I've written a number of times about how the political alliance between conservative evangelical conservatives and free market economic conservatives creates difficult tensions and contradictions in the Republican Party. One ... Read More
Myth: Atheists Have No Reason to Fear Death or Punishment
Thursday March 15, 2007
The myth that atheists have no reason to fear death or punishment is one of the oddest and most difficult to understand myths I've ever encountered - but it is ... Read More
Pete Stark: Nontheist Member of Congress
Wednesday March 14, 2007
The Secular Coalition for America has announced that Rep. Pete Stark, a Democrat from California, is a "nontheist," which makes him the highest-ranking American politician to date who admits that ... Read More
Godless Intellectual Values: Intellectual Values are Important, Godless, Secular
Wednesday March 14, 2007
When people in America talk about 'values,' they are usually talking about moral values -- and moral values concentrated around controlling people's sexuality, to boot. Neither moral values nor sexual ... Read More
Atheist Ethics are Enfeebled; Atheist Morality is Inferior
Wednesday March 14, 2007
Many Christians, especially conservative Christians, are convinced that their morality is superior to anything else in the world especially anything that atheists might have to offer. Actually supporting such ... Read More
Myth: Atheists Fear they are Too Sinful to be Accepted by God, Fear Judgment
Wednesday March 14, 2007
This myth is likely to come from a Christian, particularly a Protestant. The idea that all human beings are depraved sinners who know that they are depraved sinners, unworthy of ... Read More
Christian Principal Fires Jewish Teacher, Accuses Her of Witchcraft
Tuesday March 13, 2007
Lauren Berrios was an elementary school teacher in Long Island until she was fired in 2001 and she claims that the reason for her dismissal was a born-again Christian ... Read More
Coming Out to Your Family: Should You Reveal Your Atheism to Family, Parents?
Tuesday March 13, 2007
Many atheists struggle with deciding whether they should reveal their atheism to their family or not. Especially if a family is very religious or devout, telling parents and other family ... Read More
How Much do Churches Really Spend on Charity?
Tuesday March 13, 2007
In an effort to try to claim that they are more moral than atheists, religious believers sometimes argue that they give more to charity than atheists do. Their primary charity ... Read More
Myth: It's Harder to be a Christian than an Atheist; It's Easy to Not Believe
Tuesday March 13, 2007
Some religious believers, though mostly Christians in my experience, seem to have a need to perceive themselves as being persecuted and oppressed. Despite controlling all the levers of power in ... Read More
Christianity, Slavery, and the Civil War
Monday March 12, 2007
Many Christians today have trouble accepting that their religion was a primary ideological support for slavery in America. They regard their religion as the source of all morality and all ... Read More
Godless Ethics, Morality, and Values: Do Godless Morals & Values Exist?
Monday March 12, 2007
It's common for religious theists to claim that their religious morality is far superior to secular, atheistic, and godless morality. Of course everyone prefers their own religious morality and the ... Read More
Japanese Dissected Live Humans on Orders from God
Monday March 12, 2007
A few days ago I wrote about a recent study revealing how much more likely people are to act aggressively when exposed to stories about religious and divinely-sanctioned violence. This ... Read More
Weekly Poll: Voting for Politicians Prejudiced Against Atheists?
Monday March 12, 2007
Are Atheists Getting Too Outspoken? No, They Aren't Speaking Out Enough
Sunday March 11, 2007
A common criticism of atheists today is that the are too "outspoken." According to some, atheists are only discriminated against and treated badly because they are being too uppity ... Read More
Brash, Dismissive, Elitist: Atheists or Theists?
Sunday March 11, 2007
It's common for religious theists to complain that atheists are too brash, too dismissive of theism, and too elitist in their attitudes towards believers. To the degree that there is ... Read More
Myth: Atheists Suppress Religion, Hide Religion From Their Children
Sunday March 11, 2007
Because most atheists are not religious, it is understandable that most atheists aren't going to make an effort to raise their children in an explicitly and deliberately religious environment. Atheists ... Read More
Christian Fish Stores: Do You Patronize or Avoid Them?
Saturday March 10, 2007
Although they are more common in some areas as compared to others, most communities probably have one or two businesses which make a specific point of advertising that it is ... Read More
Coming Out to Friends & Neighbors: Should You Reveal Your Atheism to Friends?
Saturday March 10, 2007
Not all atheists have revealed their atheism to their friends and neighbors. Religious theism is so widespread, and distrust of atheists so prevalent, that many people can't tell the full ... Read More
Will Militant Atheism Harm the Democratic Party?
Saturday March 10, 2007
Francis L. Holland is very worried about the presence of so many atheists with the temerity to raise their voices and participate in the political process:
You have warned me to ... Read More
Myth: All Atheists Believe X: All Atheists are Alike, Believe the Same Things
Saturday March 10, 2007
Although there are a lot of different myths about atheism and atheists, there is one theme which keeps coming up over and over again: the assumption that all atheists share ... Read More
A Retort to Atheism?
Friday March 9, 2007
Richard Lawrence Cohen posts quote from Fancis Bacon which he thinks qualifies as a "retort" to atheism:
They are ill discoverers that think that there is no land if they see ... Read More
Godless Living in America: What Can the Godless Do in a Religious Society?
Friday March 9, 2007
Godless Americans are like other people in America: they grow up, date, get married, raise children, celebrate holidays, and all the other things which religious theists do. Godless Americans simply ... Read More
Religion and the War in Iraq
Friday March 9, 2007
Opposition to the war in Iraq is currently strong and growing. A recent poll by Gallup reveals that some of the strongest opposition to the war comes from Jews ... Read More
Myth: A Consistent Atheistic Worldview or Philosophy is Impossible, Not Livable
Friday March 9, 2007
Most myths about atheism focus on just atheism itself and misrepresent it by attributing qualities to atheism that don't apply. Here we have a slight step forward with a claim ... Read More
Atheist Wins Employment Case in Scotland
Thursday March 8, 2007
David McNab teaches math in a Catholic high school near Glasgow. He was denied a promotion to the position of "teacher of pastoral care" because he is an atheist and ... Read More
Who is Prejudiced Against Atheists? Who Attacks Godless Atheism, Liberalism?
Thursday March 8, 2007
It might be expected that conservative Christians would hold at least some animus towards atheists, and in fact hostility towards atheism is almost universal among 'born-again Christians.' Even non-Christians and ... Read More
Disowned Because of Atheism
Thursday March 8, 2007
Publicly admitting that one is an atheist can carry with it a host of negative consequences. In the context of family, it can often lead to a person being shunned, ... Read More
Myth: Atheists Would Believe if they Knew God, Experience God's Love
Thursday March 8, 2007
Many myths which religious theists generally, and Christians in particular, hold about atheists depend on the assumption that atheists don't really understand religion. When it is pointed out that most ... Read More
Outsiders Pumping Up Public School Prayer Controversy?
Wednesday March 7, 2007
In Vancouver, a group of Christian students is complaining about not being accorded special privileges denied to all other students. In Heritage High School, students can form clubs and meet ... Read More
If the Holocaust Descended from Medieval Christianity, Why No Medieval Hitler?
Wednesday March 7, 2007
Critics of Christianity and the history of Christian violence commonly point out the massive death toll of the Holocaust, arguing that it was largely a product of centuries of Christian ... Read More
Carnival of the Godless #61
Wednesday March 7, 2007
The 61st edition of the Carnival of the Godless was posted a couple of days ago at Hell's Handmaiden.
Daylight Atheism has a great post about advising a Christian man dealing ... Read More
Comparative Religion Classes in Public Schools
Wednesday March 7, 2007
PZ Myers links to a story about an incident in Washington where a teacher has been reprimanded after students complained about his "denigrating" Christianity. All he did was treat Christianity ... Read More
Myth: Atheism Caused By Bad Relationships With Fathers
Wednesday March 7, 2007
It sounds bizarre to suggest that atheism has anything to do with one's relationship with their father, but this myth has become popular due to the efforts of Paul Vitz, ... Read More
Colin Slee: Impolite Atheists are Like Bomb-Throwing Religious Terrorists
Tuesday March 6, 2007
Religious liberals are between a rock and a hard place: they can't support fundamentalists and extremists in their own religion without also ultimately supporting violence and perhaps even theocracy, but ... Read More
Atheists are Too Dangerous to Have Around
Tuesday March 6, 2007
I wrote a couple of times recently about an atheist mother being on the receiving end of abuse and even harassment by a local preacher who objected to her raising ... Read More
Myth: Atheists are Hedonists Who Worship Sex, Physical Pleasure, Comfort
Tuesday March 6, 2007
Is it true that atheists are all sex-crazed maniacs who care only about getting high? That's the implication of the popular myth that atheists are hedonists who have replaced the ... Read More
Advice for Evangelical Christian Visitors
Monday March 5, 2007
Atheists who spend any time debating religion and theism will find that they keep hitting the same claims, attitudes, ideas, etc. from religious theists. Having to rebut the same false ... Read More
Sanctified Religious Violence as a Form of Religious Devotion, Holy Obligation
Monday March 5, 2007
Many religions proclaim that they are peaceful and opposed to violence, but these same religions generally have traditions in which violence, war, and aggression not only exist and are not ... Read More
Atheists: Anything Goes?
Monday March 5, 2007
Conservative Christians' misrepresentations of atheism can appear in the most surprising and unusual of places. That conservative Christians may misunderstand and/or misrepresent atheism isn't much of a surprise, but the ... Read More
Myth: Fundamentalist Atheists are Dogmatic, Dismissive of Research into Religion
Monday March 5, 2007
Fundamentalist atheism cannot exist because there are no 'fundamental' beliefs for atheists to hold. This myth demonstrates why this is true by attempting to create out of thin air a ... Read More
Muslims Threatening Ex-Muslims
Sunday March 4, 2007
Mina Ahadi, an Iranian human rights activist living in exile in Germany, founded the Central Council of Ex-Muslims in early February. Not long thereafter, she began receiving threats from Muslims ... Read More
What is Aesthetics? Aesthetics is the Philosophy of Art, Beauty, Perception
Sunday March 4, 2007
Aesthetics almost never comes up in atheists' discussions about religion, but perhaps it should. First, religious and theistic ideas are often communicated in various forms of art (including film, books, ... Read More
Egyptian Blogger Jailed for Insulting Religion
Sunday March 4, 2007
Increased participation of "the little people" in making the decisions that affect their lives be it in politics, economics, religion, or anything else frequently creates fear and anxiety ... Read More
Myth: Abstract Concepts are Immaterial, Depend on God & Theism
Sunday March 4, 2007
Most atheists are materialists and naturalists, which means that they only accept the existence of a natural world made up of matter and energy. This means not believing in the ... Read More
People Kill, Commit Violence, When God Orders
Saturday March 3, 2007
There many far too many examples of people committing violence either because they believe they have been specifically ordered to do so by their god or because they ... Read More
Why is there Bigotry, Prejudice Against Atheists? Origins of Anti-Atheist Animus
Saturday March 3, 2007
Bigotry and prejudice against atheists is widespread in the United States. A wide variety of reasons are cited for these anti-atheist attitudes in America, but the one thing they almost ... Read More
Is Atheism the Most Deluded Belief System of All Time?
Saturday March 3, 2007
It's possible to construct informed, intelligent criticisms of atheism and atheists. Unfortunately, just because something is possible doesn't mean that it happens or at least that it happens very ... Read More
Myth: Fundamentalist Atheism is Authoritarian, Gives Science too much Authority
Saturday March 3, 2007
One of the most serious problems with religion is how often and easily it can tend towards or support authoritarian movements. This is something irreligious atheists frequently criticize about religion, ... Read More
Paul Campos: Americans Shouldn't Vote for Atheists for President
Friday March 2, 2007
Recently I wrote about how Republican Mitt Romney countered anti-Mormon bigotry with a bit of anti-atheist bigotry of his own: he declared that "we need to have a person of ... Read More
Teaching Kids About Skepticism & Science: What Should Atheist Parents Do?
Friday March 2, 2007
Parents raising their children without gods or religion should teach them how to be skeptical, how to engage in critical thinking, and how to fairly apply the standards of reason ... Read More
Dark Ages: 600 Years of Degenerate, Godless, Inhuman Behavior?
Friday March 2, 2007
The most common expression of bigotry against atheists is the claim that atheists are less moral and trustworthy than theists. According to some, it is only in the context of ... Read More
Myth: Militant Atheists Trying to Marginalize Christianity, Christians
Friday March 2, 2007
Atheists are not only a small minority with little power or influence, but they are also the most despised and distrusted minority in America. This makes them unlikely oppressors of ... Read More
It's "Insulting" for Liquor Store to Move Near a Mosque
Thursday March 1, 2007
Most people realize that Muslims are supposed to abstain from using alcohol. This isn't an unusual position, and generally just means not drinking alcohol it's not a big deal, ... Read More
Why Should Atheists Learn Philosophy? How Can Atheists Learn From Philosophy?
Thursday March 1, 2007
Each branch of philosophy has some relevance to atheism, atheists, and the critiques which irreligious atheists use to challenge religion, religious beliefs, and theism. Some branches are more relevant than ... Read More
Chuck Norris: American Presidency a Divine Institution
Thursday March 1, 2007
Chuck Norris is famous for many things, like his movies and martial arts abilities, but politics is not normally included in that list. I think there's a sound reason for ... Read More
Myth: Atheists Let Whims of Society Define their Behavior, Morality
Thursday March 1, 2007
One of the most common distinctions which religious theists try to draw between themselves and atheists is how they follow absolute, objective, eternal, and transcendent standards laid down by God ... Read More