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March 2018

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 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 16, 2017

Not What Things Seem to Be

My father has Alzheimer’s Disease for probably more than five years now. We are...

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...

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....

July 14, 2016

Revenge for the Orlando Shooting Spree!

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

June 2016

June 27, 2016

The Morals of Superman

When you compare God's morals to Superman's, Supe wins in a walk.

May 2016

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

Which Came First, the Science or the Atheism?

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

April 2016

April 28, 2016

Holy Moses?

Passover will pass over on Saturday...and I couldn’t care less. So what, you may say,...

April 19, 2016

Your Fate is in Your Hands (except when it isn’t)

Today is the third birthday I wasn’t expected to celebrate. That makes it a very...

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 14, 2016

Unnatural Selection

After the publication of On the Origin of Species, religious naturalists found themselves in a...

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 30, 2016

The Abuse of Use and Disuse

Several years ago, Keith bought a set of very old encyclopedias. I can certainly understand...

March 09, 2016

Caught in the Web of @theist Dating

In Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye’s daughters sing, Matchmaker, matchmaker, Make me a match, Find...

March 03, 2016

Born Free (of God)

I have to admit that I feel a bit embarrassed when it comes to my...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Don’t Let God Be Your Driver

You know those people who have the "God Is My Driver" bumper sticker on their...

February 25, 2016

The Trumping of America

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

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 14, 2016

A Valentine’s Day Poem Massacre

Dale McGowan penned a sweet, secular love letter to his wife for Valentine’s Day in...

February 03, 2016

A Little Birdie Told Me to Do It

In my last post, I compared the behavior of a serially mendacious hospital chaplain, who...

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 25, 2016

The Chaplain’s Cat Logic

Most cats understand the word no, despite all appearances to the contrary. But to them...

January 20, 2016

Isn’t There Something in the Bible About Lying?

“We talked about this before,” Keith told the hospital chaplain. “Stephanie is an atheist, and...

January 13, 2016

At Sea in the Gulf of Understanding

Living with Religion, is how my essay “Sympathy for the Devil-Believers” is labeled in the...

January 06, 2016

“God is Good,” But for What?

“Funny, profane and adamantly atheistic,” was the phrase the Washington Post used to describe me...

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...