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November 2015

November 30, 2015

Satan’s Ethical Code vs. God’s?

It has been funny to see what atheists have had to say about the Seven Tenets posted...

November 30, 2015

Atheist Dogmatism about Jesus

After having a discussion here at Exploring Our Matrix in which an atheist insisted that there...

November 17, 2015

Nones and Mystics

There have been nuns who have been mystics. But that's not what this is about. It has...

October 2015

October 11, 2015

Sam Harris the Powerful Philosopher

I was unaware of Existential Comics' unofficial comic section until someone drew the gem below to my...

July 2015

July 19, 2015

Whose Fault Is It?

The Facebook page Science and Scripture has been making and sharing a number of interesting...

July 06, 2015

News Flash: Right-Wing Fundamentalists Don’t Understand Islam

Hemant Mehta drew attention to angry outbursts on Twitter, from conservatives who are upset that...

June 2015

June 11, 2015

Neither Side Will Be Happy

Reality often challenges our assumptions. Sometimes evidence strongly favors one conclusion over another - there...

June 01, 2015

The Tuning Station

I had the chance to endorse Chris Crawford's novel, The Tuning Station, and since today...

May 2015

May 16, 2015

Would Discovering Extraterrestrial Life Make us – and them – Platonists, Mormons, or Atheists?

The Week featured an article a while back which suggested that the discovery of alien life...

May 13, 2015

Self-Defeating Religion

Hemant Mehta drew attention to the fact that what some conservative religious people in the...

May 11, 2015

How to Become Humble

I saw this offered on Reddit as "How to Become an Atheist." One problem is...

May 10, 2015

Fact-Checking Fables

When the above cartoon appeared on Gavin Rumney's blog, it struck me that it is...

May 09, 2015

Religion: Powerful and Dangerous Medicine

The purveyors of religion insist that their product is so powerful it can transform a...

April 2015

April 12, 2015

Religion and Death

Hemant Mehta drew attention to a statement by Larry King, to the effect that religion...

April 04, 2015

Attacking Religion at Easter

It isn't actually an attack on religion. But that is surely how it will be...

March 2015

March 22, 2015

Is Panentheism Atheism?

In the video above, Henry Neufeld asks a question which was also discussed here on...

March 16, 2015

A Hole-Shaped God

It’s not so much that we’ve got a God-shaped hole inside, it’s more that we’ve...

March 10, 2015

Embarrassed by Mythicism/Antievolutionism

Have you ever wondered why the two New Testament scholars to write books directly tackling...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

Fifty Shades of God

The above graphic came to my attention on Facebook. I appreciate attempts to introduce nuance...

February 26, 2015

Is This Atheism?

Dale Tuggy posted not that long ago on the late Marcus Borg's view of God,...

February 17, 2015

Was Religion a Factor in the Chapel Hill Shootings?

The above cartoon came to my attention via Facebook. I actually had a very interesting...

December 2014

December 04, 2014

YEC Connect the Dots

The image above appeared on the blog Friendly Atheist. It makes a number of points...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

Older Conversation from the Pale Blue Dot

Someone asked me today if I am the same James McGrath that appeared in a...

November 16, 2014

Atheism Isn’t Skepticism

A recent IO9 article indicated that more people in Britain believe in ghosts and aliens...

September 2014

September 05, 2014

Neil Carter on the Historicity of Jesus

Neil Carter is concerned about the widespread rejection of a mainstream academic field by fellow atheists....

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Proof Atheists Have Morals

Gavin Rumney shared the above, and it made me chuckle. Given that at least most...

August 22, 2014

Christians and our Critics

The quote is something that Arni Zachariassen said on Facebook, and which I have quoted...

August 21, 2014

The Outsider’s Test and the Golden Rule

Jerry Coyne shared the cartoon below, which illustrates the tendency we have to consider that...

July 2014

July 08, 2014

All Believers Are Atheists, All Atheists Are Believers

The quote from Mark Russell comes from an article which asks whether the "new atheists"...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

Skepticism, Science, and Scholarship

P. Z. Myers has seen the dark side of skepticism, the fact that its tools...

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