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June 2019

June 20, 2019

Trump Admin’s Prioritization of Religion Over Health Care Access Will Leave People Without Care

The Trump Administration seems bent on prioritizing religious "freedoms" over human needs — including medical...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Divorce Ban in Philippines Could Easily Be Us — And Was

Conservative Christians are biding their time to if not implement a divorce ban restrict it...

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 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...

February 01, 2018

Reason and Religion, Oil and Water

For long centuries, the Christian establishment has promoted the conceit that reason and religion are...

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 27, 2017

Toward a Post-Lies Future

Caption: Trumpocchio Head of Donald Trump___________________________________________________________________ DONALD TRUMP is our first post-truth president. And he...

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 13, 2017

Preserving Our Democracy on Valentine’s Day

Caption: Photograph of author and wife on Valentine’s Day outing (Image courtesy of Gleb...

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 21, 2017

A Weird American in Trump’s Post-Truth America

Caption: Truth and lies (Open Clipart-Vectors, Pixabay) ________________________________________________________________ It is an undeniable fact that Donald...

November 2016

November 19, 2016

The Worst Problem In American Politics?

Source: Cara Masto, Used with permission Like many Americans, I was left with a heavy...

November 07, 2016

The Power of Religion and the Secular

Atheists have served as scapegoats in America since earliest colonial times. Guest post by Petra...

November 06, 2016

The Myth of the Irrational Voter

Caption: Voting rights advocates (Michael Fleshman, Flickr) Voters are inherently irrational. They are moved by...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

How Our Thinking Errors Cause Us To Misinterpret Politics

Caption: Image of Trump and Clinton (Wikimedia Commons) Debate checkers usually focus on evaluating the...

October 25, 2016

How The Trump Foundation Scandal Hurts The Nonprofit Sector

Caption: Person putting money into jacket pocket (Wikimedia Commons) Written by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Intentional...

October 15, 2016

Who Will Make America Safer?

Caption: Photo of Trump and Clinton (Static, Flickr) Co-written by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Intentional Insights...

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 14, 2016

Revenge for the Orlando Shooting Spree!

Caption: Yelling man (Image credit) _______________________________________________________ The June 12 mass killings in Orlando was...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

What Do Politics Have to Do with Meaning and Purpose in Life?

You pass through the long security line at the United States Capitol building inWashington,...

May 05, 2016

Which Came First, the Science or the Atheism?

I used to joke that the chicken or the egg riddle was actually an evolution...

February 2016

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,...

February 05, 2016

The Taboo of Atheism in Egypt

Insulting Buddhism or Hinduism is not punishable by Egyptian law, but insulting Islam, Christianity or...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

A Teacher in the South

The moment I stopped waffling between agnosticism and atheism, I was sitting at the wake...

January 05, 2016

The Catch-22 of Religious Privilege

The stark choice of the privilege-defenders: Oppose privilege, and you're an oppressor; ignore it, and...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

Because the Bible Tells Me So

As a Jewish-agnostic Unitarian, I was a gefilte fish out of water when we...