Blog Posts - Atheism

I know what it is like to be indoctrinated into Christianity from an early age, experience doubts about what I had been taught, and gradually emerge on the other side of a long struggle as an atheist. The fact that I went through this many years ago...

ALLOW LOVE: Let love in, no matter your beliefs Looking through social media comments there are so many people preaching the word of god, saying that those who don’t believe in him are sinners and will go to hell. On the other end, there are atheis...

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.I touched on this experiment in intellectual dishonesty in this post, but Rupert Sheldrake here presents the documentary proof that Richard Wiseman misrepresented his own data to proclaim all evidence of psychic p...

Yes, I am a Christian. And I do not tell you why! Unless… …you tell me that Chirstianism killed a …Continue reading →...

Spend any time on the atheism subreddit at Reddit, and you will see countless pleas for help from teenage atheists seeking advice for how to "come out" to their parents. In nearly all of them, the teen describes how desperately he or she wants to tel...

More than two years ago, I expressed my consternation — indeed more than once — on some of the nonsense that has been going the last several years online, mainly in the skeptic community, between feminists on one side, others who don’t nece...

An amplifier by Marshall Amplification, MG15DFX. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)As I headed into 2015 hoping to scale back my online activity a bit, I found myself asking what I might do when I did not have time to write a post. I decided I would try to do...

Reddit user aggressive_biscuits posted the following photo online of a Rationalist of East Tennessee billboard, which is located about 20 minutes from me in Knoxville:...

Of all the questions I receive here by email, the most common one might be some version of "How did you become an atheist?" The person asking this question almost always identifies himself or herself as a Christian, and the question is often delivere...

Ancient Greek buildings and structures in Athens (Photo credit: Wikipedia)If you are a parent with young children residing in a predominately Christian country such as the United States, you can be sure of one thing: it is only a matter of time until...

Let’s begin in the book of Jonah. That might be an unusual place to talk about the existence of God but we see a principle at work. Jonah has been told to go to Nineveh and preach repentance. Jonah fled … Continue reading →...

The Nones have it. A recent article by Alana Massey from the Washington Post puts it well. We are cultural Christians living in a secular world. My mind often goes back to the fate of those trained by a system … Continue reading →...

"What's wrong with the world today? Too many Christians and not enough lions." You have probably heard this or variations of this statement from various atheists online. It is one of the many anti-theistic memes which seem to circulate constantly on...

A few weeks ago someone showed me a newspaper article entitled “New theory could prove how life began and disprove God”, which was published in the UK newspaper The Independent. Now I have, of course, heard media pronouncements of the nature pu...

Back when I was a teenager and struggling to come to terms with the inescapable realization that I no longer believed in gods, the world was a very different place than it is today. I wasn't sure what atheism was. I had never even heard of anyone in...

Religion. People say things like, "I couldn't have made it this far without Jesus in my life." Or, Allah, or God, or whatever flavor you subscribe to.So what is it that's going on there? Must be something right?Well, yes. And, no.Religion offers us a...

Fans protest Michael Jackson's innocence in the child molestation scandal in 2004 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)If you were keeping a file in which to store all the evidence pointing to the harm caused by religion, it would have overflowed long ago. While...

Prayers at the entry of the Jokhang temple (Photo credit: Wikipedia)After several years of regular prayer, I found myself becoming increasingly frustrated with the total lack of response. Other Christians claimed that the god in which we all believed...

(Media Release) If Daniel Dennett is anything, he is a champion of the facts. The prominent philosopher of science is an advocate for hard-nosed empiricism, and as a leading New Atheist he calls for naturalistic explanations of religion. Dennett is a...

By Luis Argerich, via Wikimedia Commons Sunday morning has become a perfect time for catching up with what has been happening around the atheist blogosphere. I try to do this even when I don't have time to do as much writing as I would like, whi...

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