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August 2018

August 26, 2018

What We Talk About When We Talk About Societal Regression

This week in Colombia, the Constitutional Court overturned a two-year-old ban on bullfighting, citing its...

August 12, 2018

The Joker and the Supermen: Secular Story-Telling in a Spiritual World

It happens with uncanny frequency here in Colombia: when I talk to a male person,...

June 2018

June 22, 2018

Bible-Shaming Won’t Work: The Love Thy Neighbour Problem

As outrage spread in response to the U.S. policy of separating children from parents at...

March 2018

March 15, 2018

Elected officials serve as enforcers of religious faith

How American Christianity Perpetuates: Reasons #3-5 Public shaming by elected officials. That sums up reasons...

March 07, 2018

Down-To-Earth Reasons Explain Religion’s Endless Existence

How American Christianity Perpetuates Reason #1: Skeptics Inadvertently Enable It As I read the new...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

Was God necessary for creation? Science suggests no.

Contrary to what ancient Christian theologians hypothesized, the universe was not necessarily created from a...

February 20, 2018

Circumcision re-enters genital-mutilation debate

During the decades I lived in Saudi Arabia, I eventually stopped noticing the dense black...

February 12, 2018

Heartbreaking Tragedy on Indian Reservation. Few Notice.

A double tragedy occurred in January on South Dakota’s iconic Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, two...

February 08, 2018

God Adorns South Dakota State Seal. Our Founding Fathers Would Rage.

It’s bad enough, but the real issue isn’t the silliness of a few dozen South...

February 06, 2018

School Proselytizers Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

A recent post in Hemant Mehta’s The Friendly Atheist blog about a lawsuit against a...

January 2018

January 12, 2018

The Muslims are coming! It’s ‘war’, warns South Dakota senator

Apparently, would-be Muslim refugees to the United States and mainly-Christian interfaith proponents already here are...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

Trump Rescinds Trans Youth Rights: Helped by Christians and Atheists

Yesterday, the Trump Administration reversed former President Obama’s federal extension of Title IX protections to...

February 10, 2017

The Broken Sexual Ethic of Faith and My First Time

I enjoy sex. I enjoy it a lot. I have a very healthy view and...

February 07, 2017

I’m Sorry For My Part In Creating The Monster And I Hope You Forgive Me

A few hours ago I watched with slim hope and then great sadness as I...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

Freedom’s Path Series: Tales TRUMP Trust

This has nothing to do with President Trump. I just needed to use the word....

November 2016

November 01, 2016

Life’s Most Incredible Events Explained (Just a Coincidence?)

Caption: Shocked Man (image credit) By Hunter Glenn _______________________________________________________________________ Roy Cleveland Sullivan was struck by...

August 2016

August 11, 2016

Dissecting the GOP Platform with a Secular Scalpel

A former Republican atheist takes a detailed look at the troubling church-state implications of the...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Two by Two, Kentuckians Led Astray By Ark Encounter

A message from Satan near the entrance to Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter brought me back...

July 17, 2016

A Pastor Walks Into a Room Full of Atheists

This is a guest post by my friend and United Methodist Minister Rev. Caleb Pitkin....

May 2016

May 13, 2016

Confessions of a Former Nun Wannabe

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ. I thought everything about the Church was...

May 10, 2016

Living In Sin? Why Secular People Should Support Polyamory.

Mary, an electrician, and Bob, an administrative assistant, are happily married, and have been...

May 05, 2016

National Day of Prayer or Reason?

Isn't the National Day of Reason just pitting reason against faith once again? When does...

April 2016

April 18, 2016

Is God Needed For Finding Meaning and Purpose? Science Says No!

Caption: Image of man thinking about religion, courtesy of Cerina Gillilan. Imagine the following...

April 12, 2016

Civil Conversations in Divisive Times

Interfaith literacy is an understanding of how different people live their beliefs and values and...

April 07, 2016

Glimpsing Truth through the Blinders of Religion

Charles Darwin knew how explosive his theories would be—that’s why he sat on them for...

March 2016

March 22, 2016

The Secret Secular Handshake

“You’re certainly colorful today. Something for Easter?” said one of my many specialist physicians, referring...

March 16, 2016

The Donald Made Them Do It

I’ve long nicknamed the GOP, God’s Official Party. But lately, the Republican Party has seemed...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

The Trumping of America

The 2016 Republican primary race seems to have been conceived by a coked-up Hollywood satirist....

February 22, 2016

Hiding Darwin’s Disbelief

Part 3 in a series on the mangling of Darwin's Autobiography Back to Part 1...

February 18, 2016

The Long Goodbye for an Atheist-Positive President

I have long harbored a fantasy that President Barack Obama is not a Christian. No,...