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Today's edition of Poetry Sunday features the English poet and novelist Philip Larkin. Born in...

According to Buddhist tradition, the final stage of Prince Siddhartha Gautama's becoming the Buddha came...

Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars gives us the scoop on a California...

It may be the 21st century, but you wouldn't know it from stories like this:...

The final day of The Secular Society and Its Enemies had three programs. The first,...

The second day of The Secular Society and Its Enemies was largely devoted to panel...

I mentioned back in October that this weekend I'd be attending The Secular Society and...

A few days ago, I had an e-mail query from an atheist looking for advice....

One year ago this month, I posted an essay titled "A Seriously Warped Moral Compass"....

Have you heard the shocking news? The world's most notorious atheist has converted! No, it's...

This is an open thread to address John's comment regarding Christianity and the origins of...

One of the core beliefs of Judaism and Christianity is that God is omnipotent, able...

Back in September, the blogger Riverbend - the thoughtful, eloquent young Iraqi woman who authors...

(Author's Note: "The Desert" is a work of short fiction in several parts. If you...

I stepped out of my house today on a chilly fall afternoon. After an unseasonably...

Almost two hundred years ago, the English Romantic poet John Keats wrote a poem, "Lamia",...

Recently, while I was looking over my list of especially ridiculous items culled from the...

In the comments of my recent post "On Atheist Janitors", I was accused of being...

...and I also wouldn't normally use this blog to inflict personal photos on you all,...

Back in August, in "Some Thoughts on Fermi's Paradox", I proposed some explanations for why...

A while back, I came across the moving story of an individual calling himself Real...

It has often been pointed out, by myself and by other atheists, that the traditional...

The other day, I received a jaw-dropping piece of spam e-mail: The Detox Box is...

Today's edition of Poetry Sunday features another freethinking poet of the 20th century, the American...

A frequent refrain among the religious right is that the United States of America is...

Via Orcinus, a truly incredible story about the latest survey to come out of the...

"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mold me Man? Did I solicit...

"Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against...

There's been another kerfuffle in the atheist community, and for once, it wasn't caused by...

(Author's Note: "The Desert" is a work of short fiction in several parts. If you...