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December 2015

December 04, 2015

Prayer-Shaming, Jewish Style

Well it seems that the topic of the day is “prayer-shaming,” prompted by yesterday’s New...

July 2015

July 21, 2015

In Reply to Rabbi Stephen Fuchs

Rabbi Stephen Fuchs left a couple of comments on my blog about my post, Imagine...

July 18, 2015

Imagine THIS!

**Update** Rabbi Fuchs commented at the bottom of this post. My response can be found...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

A God That Could Be Real but Isn’t

I just started reading Jerry Coyne’s new book, Faith vs. Fact and I’m finding it...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Shabbat Funerals And Other Transgressions

On Monday morning I attended a meeting of the Michigan Board of Rabbis. Like most...

October 2013

October 18, 2013

Yoffie Redux: Godlessness Is Not The Answer!

I am thoroughly frustrated with Rabbi Eric Yoffie, former head of Reform Judaism. You may...

January 2013

January 17, 2013

The Deluded Ramblings Of A Secular Jew (Me)

As I’ve written here before, I was reared in and received ordination from the Reform...

June 2012

June 01, 2012

Reform Judaism Leads To Atheism

Mark Zuckerberg’s supposed break with Judaism has inspired a chest-beating column by Rabbi Dana Evan...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Reform Islam?

If you’re a liberal Jew, there are denominations for you. If you’re a liberal Christian,...

March 27, 2012

It’s Lurie Versus Falick!

While Jerry Coyne has been “crossing swords” with Rabbi Alan Lurie on his site, the...

March 23, 2012

Lurie, Einstein And Me

I certainly did not expect to hear from Alan Lurie about my recent post, “Lurie...

March 19, 2012

Lurie Redux…Now With Einsteinian Proofs!

I have twice addressed Rabbi Alan Lurie’s HuffPost articles and their assertions about God. You...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

How Could God Have Allowed The Holocaust And Other Meaningless Questions

Back in September I wrote a response to Rabbi Alan Lurie’s HuffPost blog about how...

January 16, 2012

Why “Atheist Rabbi”?

In the wake of the attack on my blog, I thought it might be a...

January 13, 2012

Reasonable Religion

Am I anti-religious? Many atheists are proudly so. They see all religion as dangerous and...

December 2011

December 22, 2011

Hitchens, Wolpe And The Dear Leader

I miss Christopher Hitchens. Rabbi David Wolpe, in his really lousy book, Why Faith Matters,...

October 2011

October 04, 2011

Eliminating The Cruelest Cut

I was very pleased to be contacted recently by Dr. Mark Reiss, who maintains the...

October 04, 2011

Angels Among Us

Once upon a time, in the nineteenth century when Reform Judaism was on the road...

September 2011

September 30, 2011

Blessed Art Thou, Mr. Deity

I am a long-time fan of the Mr. Deity YouTube series. If you aren’t familiar...

September 15, 2011

Warning! This Religion Will Require A God Upgrade!

Here’s a book review I’ve been working on. The post is a little longer than...

July 2011

July 08, 2011

Hitchens Comments On The Gaza Flotilla

Christopher Hitchens has an outstanding piece on Slate.com about the slowly gathering “Free Gaza Flotilla.”...

July 01, 2011

Conservative Judaism Reacts To Gay Marriage

Now that New York has made gay marriage legal, it is instructive to judge the...

June 2011

June 21, 2011

Welcome To The “Make Up Your Own God Game!”

Before I just declared myself an out and out atheist (having no god) and agnostic...

March 2011

March 14, 2011

Angry, Angry Atheists

I don’t care if it is on HuffPost, I’m not going to ignore the latest...

March 10, 2011

The Afterlife

There’s a new religion debate online featuring Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Rabbi David Wolpe and...

March 04, 2011

Miami Herald Columnist Responds To My Post

Confirming my suspicion that he is a true gentleman, Leonard Pitts actually responded to my...

March 03, 2011

Atheists As Fundamentalists: A False Equation

I’m a big fan of columnist Leonard Pitts. But when he’s wrong, he’s wrong. In...

February 2011

February 25, 2011

Jesus And Mo And Rabbi Yoffie

In my response to Eric Yoffie’s HuffPost piece, which was just chock-full of silliness, I...

February 24, 2011

Looking For God In All The Wrong Places

One of the truest statements in the Hebrew Bible is in Ecclesiastes, “There is nothing...

February 10, 2011

Another non-theistic reinterpretation of religion has been published by a fellow named Bo Bennett. According...