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)

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...