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April 2012

April 15, 2012
Mythology has many precedents to the story of the resurrection of Jesus. Let’s look at...
April 14, 2012
We all know that the moon isn’t made of green cheese. But is this knowledge...
April 13, 2012
From Mitchell and Webb, a video that explores the origin of religions.
April 11, 2012
You’re comfortable with the concepts you’ve grown up with, but that doesn’t mean that there’s...
April 09, 2012
How many days did Jesus teach after his resurrection? Was it 40 days as Acts...
April 08, 2012
Apologists love to bring up the women at the tomb. Women weren’t reliable witnesses in...
April 06, 2012
The story of the crucifixion of Jesus? Not that big a deal. Here are 10...
April 04, 2012
What are we to make of the Shroud of Turin? Is it a miracle or...

March 2012

March 30, 2012
I spent an interesting few days at the Reason Rally and that American Atheist conference....
March 26, 2012
Is homosexuality in humans an aberration? Just another deviation from nature? No, humans have a...
March 24, 2012
Hmm … maybe there’s something to that whole psychic thing after all.
March 23, 2012
Marriage, many Christians want us to believe, is for procreation. Nope—not companionship, not love, not...
March 21, 2012
Sometimes a Venn diagram just cuts away the chaff and makes things much clearer.
March 19, 2012
What do the Ten Commandments say? Maybe not what you expect.
March 17, 2012
Religion in other species? What would that look like?
March 16, 2012
Several passages from the New Testament are often cited to condemn homosexuality, but these sources...
March 14, 2012
The Reason Rally is expected to be the world’s largest secular gathering … and I’ll...
March 12, 2012
This post concludes our look at homosexuality in the Old Testament with some passages from...
March 10, 2012
The medieval Dark Ages in Europe aren’t history’s only dark ages. The great civilizations of...
March 09, 2012
This is the first of two posts about homosexuality in the Old Testament and focuses...
March 07, 2012
In an homage to a mock-German sign that I remember from the early personal computer...
March 05, 2012
Do the Bible and the Church make a clear and unambiguous declaration that marriage is...
March 03, 2012
We all do it—we sift through the deluge of data that surrounds us and pick...
March 02, 2012
Christians like to argue that same-sex marriage requires a change in the definition of marriage....

February 2012

February 29, 2012
Imagine the claim, “I hold in my hand a pamphlet that will undercut your worldview!”...
February 27, 2012
Imagine a post-apocalyptic world with no evidence of Christianity. Could it be recreated?
February 25, 2012
Saying “Evolution is just a theory” is like saying “He only won the Nobel Peace...
February 24, 2012
An excellent infographic makes clear the problems caused by poor sex education.
February 22, 2012
There is a bit of malicious joy in sitting at the sidelines watching the nutty...
February 21, 2012
The San Francisco earthquake was predicted by the Azusa Street church in Los Angeles. This...
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