More on Jesse Bering's book on the psychology of belief . " The Belief Instinct " continues harping on the issue of "theo...

"Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning " by Alan Jackson was sung on American Idol tonight. I'd never heard it before,...

He lives in Mississippi, and he's an "out" atheist. He lives his motto, "Be Brave, Bitches!"

Christians who object to atheism usually demand that atheists answer the questions that they think their religion answers for them.  I imagi...

Jesse Bering's book on the psychology of belief was titled "The God Instinct" in the U.K. but released as " The Belief In...

http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/04/04/a-c-grayling-writes-a-secular-bible/ Sounds a lot like the Jefferson Bible .   There's ...

Very cool.  I especially like his message to future generations (at the end)

She reads Rick Warren so you don't have to! Way to take one for the team!

We're not angry at God.  You can't be angry at a fairy tale.  So if you are a Christian and this is what you've been told, erase...

Coming to a big city near MEEEE!!!!! Indianapolis!!!!! The press says they picked Indy because there are freethinkers here, but I think t...

Oh noes someone didn't want to pray! Good for him for raising a ruckus and getting arrested! Going to court is just too damn expensive...

1. Authority -- NOT -- it was compiled, copied, edited, codified and translated by men. Men with agendas. Over the hundreds of years it was ...

ugh ugh ugh ugh: http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/01/11/are-some-atheists-more-%E2%80%98religious%E2%80%99-than-they-realize/ So... it'...

In the United States, a.k.a. God's Country, if you're not a Christian, you best be sumthin' else or else.... They can relate to ...

Over and over I see people claiming that the antidote (or antipode?) to religion is science, or perhaps the scientific method. For some of t...

In one of my former cities I had a friend who was in A.A. He was a believer of sorts but he said "We have atheists in A.A., but they pr...

Imagine you're a teenaged girl named "Hema Karunakaram," all-American non-white teen and possibly brought up in one of the rel...

In this study: http://www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org/reports/ARIS_Report_2008.pdf a comprehensive study of religiosity in America has f...

I used to live in DC, and that's where I was living when I started this blog (and dropped it). Now that I live in the Texas of the Midwe...