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July 13, 2021
If fidelity to free speech fades, will religious privilege wither, too?
Americans are starting to take a hard look at free speech, which in the Trump...
July 09, 2021
Critical-thinking deficit aids religion and fascism by dumbing-down America
Why do so many Americans embrace such outlandish and patently false ideas these days? Partly...
July 03, 2021
Atheist politicians are still technically illegal in 7 states? Should we fret?
In seven U.S. states, laws — although they have long been ignored — preclude atheist...
June 2021
June 30, 2021
Why should Christian theology co-opt U.S. abortion debate?
Despite our differences regarding abortion, Americans generally accept it when safe, legal and rare. Religion...
June 25, 2021
Epicurus was right. ‘God’ is impotent or evil.
The "problem of evil" debate continues because God believers can't accept the deep divides between...
June 22, 2021
The QAnon meme is a hoax, yet 15% of Americans buy it. Yikes.
Are Americans really this gullible, where millions of us actually believe the QAnon meme, which...
June 13, 2021
Sex-change surgery back at med school, despite Catholic icon’s resistance
It took some four decades, but Johns Hopkins University's 'sex-change' surgery program is back. Its...
June 10, 2021
Founding Father Thomas Paine loathed atheists. I believe he was one.
I believe colonial revolutionary Thomas Paine was mistaken in believing himself a godly man. Most...
June 07, 2021
Unelected ‘Lords Spiritual’ enjoy automatic seats in U.K. Parliament
So-called "Lords Spiritual," clergy granted unelected, full-power seats in the U.K.'s Parliament, are a symptom...
June 04, 2021
Trump’s “Big Lie” a weapon of mass destruction. Why is he still free?
President Joe Biden this week warned, "Democracy is in peril." The reason is Donald Trump's...
June 01, 2021
William Buckley was at Yale even if his Christian God wasn’t
Despite his all-American conservative credentials, the late William F. Buckley Jr. glorified un-American Christian privilege...
May 2021
May 27, 2021
Godly philosopher Buber lauded atheism but couldn’t embrace it
Twentieth-century Philosopher Martin Buber Martin Buber understood the beauty of atheism while maintaining a complex...
May 24, 2021
The spirit of critical thinking, not just science, is threatening faith
A new academic study shows that a growing ethos of skeptical inquiry, not science per...
May 21, 2021
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Jesus death cults are only one tragic result of belief in divinities and the supernatural...
May 18, 2021
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Singapore's rigid chewing-gum laws come from fear, as does the coercive behavior of America's Christian...
May 15, 2021
House GOP faithful ‘executed’ Rep. Liz Cheney for heresy
Make no mistake. U.S. House Republicans figuratively burned Rep. Liz Cheney alive for truthful heresy,...
May 12, 2021
Creationism failed, again, in Arkansas. But don’t fist-bump just yet.
Creationism will not be twinned with "creationist theory" in Arkansas public-school science classes, but it...
May 09, 2021
Spain, America growing more secular at similar, relentless rates
America for decades has lagged behind Western Europe in growing more secular. Now we seem...
May 06, 2021
Christian evangelicals see public childcare plan as secular Trojan Horse
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May 03, 2021
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Piles of true believers all too frequently perish in one religious stampede or another. Rationally,...
April 2021
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Religious zealots exert constant pressure, bullying "others" and those who they claim insult their faiths....
April 27, 2021
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Men depicted in age-old paintings and sculptures are often, to modern sensibilities, spectacularly under-endowed penis-wise....
April 24, 2021
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British atheist gadfly Richard Dawkins has come under criticism lately for pointing out that transsexuals...
April 21, 2021
Jesus, Muhammad didn’t denigrate women. So why do religious men?
A lot of religious men today still believe their holy books authorize men to denigrate...
April 18, 2021
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The U.S. Supreme Court has long rejected teaching creationism within science courses but has gained...
April 15, 2021
If abortion is so evil, why has omnipotent God failed to stop it?
It doesn't logically follow that an all-powerful universal divinity that supposedly condemns abortion would then...
April 12, 2021
There’s a teapot orbiting the sun. Don’t believe it? Prove it.
It's not up to atheists to disprove theism but to theists to prove it. If...
April 07, 2021
U.S. “nones” beef up political forces vs. stubborn evangelical heft
U.S. evangelical Christians have acquired vast political power since the 1980s, while "nones" are now...
April 04, 2021
Why are U.S. “nones” still punching below their political weight?
The number of nonreligions Americans, the so-called "nones," have surged tens of millions in but...
April 01, 2021
$1,018-a-pop ‘Satan Shoes’ bedevil evangelical Gov. Kristi Noem
A likely illegal campaign selling repurposed Nike sneakers as Satanic kicks has got South Dakota...
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