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August 2008

August 08, 2008
A few months ago, I signed up for the mailing list of a site that...
August 06, 2008
A few weeks back, I came across a charmingly nasty site called "Christian Cross Talk"...
August 04, 2008
I've resisted commenting on this until now, but I have to give in. I'm sure...
August 03, 2008
I usually talk about heavy subjects on this weblog, but sometimes it's nice to shift...
August 01, 2008
The winter of 1777-1778 was a bad time for the American revolutionary army. General George...

July 2008

July 30, 2008
In 1999, Time magazine named Albert Einstein its "Person of the Century". The choice was...
July 28, 2008
One of the defining attributes of all the world's religions through history is that they...
July 27, 2008
Is the power of the religious right declining in America? Several lines of evidence would...
July 25, 2008
Before the dawn of the scientific age, humankind had only its unaided senses to examine...
July 23, 2008
Past editions of Strange and Curious Sects have explored religious splinter groups that came into...
July 21, 2008
In the first chapter of her autobiography Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali recounts some of the...
July 19, 2008
Presented without further comment: Last night, when I got on the subway, I noticed an...
July 18, 2008
I first came across today's little-known Bible verse while reading The Pilgrim's Progress, and it...
July 16, 2008
In 1967, Mildred Loving and her husband Richard, an interracial couple, were arrested at their...
July 14, 2008
Imagine, in some medieval monarchy or modern-day oligarchy, that the government passed a law which...
July 13, 2008
As I've said in the past, I don't usually write about myself or my personal...
July 11, 2008
In May, I wrote about the freethinker Giuseppe Verdi and my experience attending a performance...
July 09, 2008
The New York Times published an article last week, Tiny Voices Defy Child Marriage in...
July 07, 2008
In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore made a famous observation: that the speed of computer...
July 06, 2008
To commemorate the Fourth of July, here's this month's Poetry Sunday. American readers will likely...
July 04, 2008
To mark the tenth installment of Popular Delusions, I'm turning my attention to one of...
July 02, 2008
Much head-scratching has been occasioned by the Pew Forum's latest report from its U.S. Religious...
July 01, 2008
Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician, an elected member of that country's Parliament, infamous for...

June 2008

June 30, 2008
Today's post on morality takes up the topic of forgiveness for wrongdoing. In superstitious times,...
June 28, 2008
The number of different religions on this planet is vast, and all their associated arguments...
June 27, 2008
The other day while browsing in the library, I found out that Tim LaHaye and...
June 26, 2008
I have two short announcements to bring to your attention: • Daylight Atheism commenter Eshu...
June 25, 2008
Today's installment of "Do You Really Believe That?" will leave behind Judaic and Christian mythologies...
June 23, 2008
Summary: Brilliant, brave, inspiring. Read this book. In 2004, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh...
June 22, 2008
For my northern hemisphere readers, the full flush of summer has arrived. In honor of...
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