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“I drive my car, it is a witness. My license plate, it states my business.” The words are from a song by one of the most creative Christian Rock groups ever, Daniel Amos. While I don’t listen to Christian Rock … Continue reading ͛...

I have been using Reddit for awhile, but I had no idea that there was a small group of Mississippi atheists there with their own subreddit until I stumbled across it recently. I was searching Google for information on atheists in Mississippi just to...

Today is the National Day of Prayer in the U.S. And by prayer, everyone knows we mean Christian prayer. No, we aren't quite a Christian theocracy, but we're closer than some of us would like. And while some of us would prefer a National Day of Reason...

Do you believe in god(s)? What's that? You say you're not sure you believe in god(s). It sounds like you might be an atheist. Specifically, it sounds like you might be an agnostic atheist like me. Wait a second! How can you be an atheist if you aren'...

Crossposted from Reflections Journal.As I noted here, Rupert Sheldrake challenged professional skeptic Michael Shermer to a debate in 2003. He accepted. And now, a mere twelve years later, that debate will take place.Michael Shermer, publisher of Ske...

Manifestacion Anti Clerical or (The Street Gazzete: Anti Clerical Manifestation) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Despite widespread confusion, secularism is not synonymous with atheism. So what is secularism? The National Secular Society explains it quite w...

Stained glass window, U. S. Pentagon, honoring the Four Chaplains, USAT Dorchester, 1943 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Using data from a recent Christianity Today article, Hemant Mehta (Friendly Atheist) wrote a post a couple days ago in which he noted th...

Disregard getting hitched by a fat Elvis impersonator – you can now get hitched by a bacon minister from the Church of Bacon. In any case the sizzling celebrants are under assault from spoilsports and eavesdroppers, some of whom are in all lik...

The help you give, the food you unwillingly provide,The love you show to thoseAgainst whom you secretly pass remarks snide.Fear makes you do this or duty.If your religion didn’t demand it, would you still do it?Afterlife is what worries you,An entr...

Detail from James Gillray's "New Morality" published in the Anti-Jacobin Review (Photo credit: Wikipedia)I have never been convinced that one's answer to the question of whether gods exist has much of anything to do with whether one is a decent and m...

A schematic showing the spreading of humans in history. The schematic is made based on an image in the magazine "Natuurwetenschap en techniek, oktober 2009". This image in the magazine was an image made using data from the (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Do...

“That shepherd of Internet trolls.” — Sam Harris on PZ Myers *** I haven’t read PZ Myers for years because his scorched-earth brand of criticism, whereby he abuses the wide influence he has at Free Thought Blogs — particularly a...

The majority of Mississippians who vote continue to elect extremely conservative Christians to our state legislature and to Congress. Thus, it comes as no surprise that we secular Mississippians rarely feel as though our interests are being adequatel...

RELIGIOUS ATHEIST: An imaginary number I belong to a number of meetups. In an attempt to find ‘my tribe’ I go to these gathering-togethers of like-minded people to discuss subjects of interest on an equal unbiased intellectual platform. Continue...

The state capitol of Madison, Wisconsin (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Atheists face plenty of barriers to being fully open and honest about who we are. Many of these barriers are symbolic in the sense that they communicate that we are not part of mainstre...

Caroline Wyatt has done an impressive job as the BBC's religion correspondent, and has an interesting reflection on Easter observance in the UK Perhaps Lent is now seen by some as a secular opportunity to cleanse the body from daily abundance, if no...

Holy Week is coming. The perfect opportunity for atheists around the world to talk and discuss intensly (and by far …Continue reading →...

GOD Can an atheist actually be a Christian? Sounds ridiculous, but here’s the report of a Presbyterian USA minister who does not believe in God but is actually offended by those who question whether he’s really a Christian. From the Christian New...

GOD Can an atheist actually be a Christian? Sounds ridiculous, but here’s the report of a Presbyterian USA minister who does not believe in God but is actually offended by those who question whether he’s really a Christian. From the Christian New...

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