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August 2021

August 25, 2021

Religious war remains a huge problem

The Taliban seizure of Afghanistan underscores an ugly 21st century fact: Religion-based warfare remains the...

August 11, 2021

Closet Atheists Abound in America

Atheists are disliked in America — constantly denigrated in public surveys — which may explain...

July 2021

July 28, 2021

Human progress has been due to progressives

Human society has been enormously improved since The Enlightenment, chiefly because crusading liberals have overcome...

July 21, 2021

Skepticism is all about honesty

By James A. Haught Nobody actually knows where beliefs come from. Psychologists can’t explain what...

July 15, 2021

Christianity is collapsing

Sociologists are amazed by the swift disintegration of Christianity in America. It’s a stunning cultural...

July 07, 2021

It’s a crime to trust God

Various suits against the national motto have previously failed because the U.S. Supreme Court pretends...

July 01, 2021

Handmaid danger conceivably fading

Why has the novel Handmaid’s Tale had such a strong impact? Here’s my theory.

June 2021

June 23, 2021

States of unconstitutional faith

An overwhelming majority of the states have holy preambles in their constitutions.

June 16, 2021

How the majestic mountains in my state were created

Even if you’ve lived all your life in Appalachia, the immensity of the mountains still...

June 10, 2021

The godly problem of evil

For thinking people, there’s only one possible answer to the age-old problem of evil: The...

June 02, 2021

Astrology is nonsense

Astrology has no basis in fact.

May 2021

May 05, 2021

The most religious experience I know

Electrons and quarks, galaxies and black holes, electromagnetic radiation, DNA and cells, gravity, molecular bonds,...

April 2021

April 29, 2021

My all-time favorite stories

We live in a colossal ocean of verbiage. Amid this never-stopping avalanche, a few special,...

April 21, 2021

Life is randomly cruel

If God is all-loving and almighty, why does he permit earthquakes — and tsunamis and...

April 15, 2021

Evolution has produced all life

Honest, intelligent people must accept scientific evidence that evolution produced all living things, because no...

April 07, 2021

How preachers turned faith into a sleazy business

Among sleazy occupations, is anything worse than big-money evangelists with their private jets, garish diamonds,...

March 2021

March 31, 2021

A new phase of civilization

I predict that the Secular Age is taking shape under our noses.

March 24, 2021

Why is war on the decline?

For millennia, it was considered normal for strong tribes to conquer, pillage and subjugate weaker...

March 19, 2021

Happy spring: Victories, denunciations, court cases and multimedia treats

The Freedom From Religion Foundation achieved a great deal in this week before the official...

March 18, 2021

Einstein was a brilliant skeptic

Everyone, everywhere knows of Albert Einstein, whose birth anniversary we celebrated a few days ago,...

March 10, 2021

Why I am an atheist

I’m an atheist because honesty requires it.

March 03, 2021

Why so many gods?

When humans evolved large brains, they acquired an ability to imagine a huge array of...

February 2021

February 26, 2021

An unconstitutional tie-up, a lively debate, a Black skeptic, and 90 years of progress

Even in a comparatively light week, we had a lot going on at the Freedom...

February 24, 2021

Nine decades of progress in my lifetime

Soon, our world will end, not with a bang but a whimper.

February 17, 2021

Blasphemy through the ages

Through centuries, believers often killed scientific thinkers — but science always proved correct.

February 11, 2021

Science always defeats religion

Through centuries, believers often killed scientific thinkers — but science always proved correct.

February 03, 2021

The deadliness of cults

The lethal delusion of cults has repeatedly been on public display.

January 2021

January 28, 2021

The intolerance of evangelicals

Across America, Religious Right-aligned politicians pass “religious freedom” laws that have a single purpose: to...

January 21, 2021

Does God exist?

By James A. Haught Well, it depends on what you mean by God. The universe...

January 13, 2021

The craziness of 50,000 religions

The wide array of current religions, plus many that died in the past, are pretty...