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October 2018

October 29, 2018

On Religion and Human Need

What do people need? It's a serious question. Apart from food, water and sleep, what...

May 2018

May 07, 2018

Fundamentalist Intolerance

The current deluge of “religious freedom” laws have a single purpose: to let narrow-minded believers...

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...

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...

April 2016

April 19, 2016

Quit Telling Addicts They Need God to Recover!

The best thing we can do for addicts is make them feel empowered to take...

February 2016

February 05, 2016

The Taboo of Atheism in Egypt

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

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 22, 2016

Idaho’s Faith Exemptions are Killing Children

At least 12 children have died in 3 years from preventable causes in one Idaho...