The Three Great Dangers of Religion
I’m the type of person that can sit across the table from a person of any religious background, no matter how fundamentalist they may be, and find a common humanity…
Testimony of a Dying Man
Last night a friend of me sent something to me from a friend of his who is dying. I don’t know the man who wrote this personally and his name…
The problem with certainty
I recall being certain that God existed, that he loved me, and that he was embodied in a set of books we call the Bible. I was so certain of…
Science: Humbling the Faithful
[google1 size=small] Science is hard. Science is really, really hard. I know this because I’ve been spending a lot of my time in recent years trying to get a…
Appropriate Conduct for Christians
Twice in the last three weeks I’ve been witness to two different Christians in group settings openly ridiculing atheists and science. I’ve also in the past seen believers ridicule other…
Book Review: God No! by Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette, of Penn and Teller fame, recently release his new book entitled God No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales that I believe to be…
Proof and Evidence
I recently witnessed an assertion about proving god’s existence to atheists by a Christian that made the following claim: Ask 1000 people what proof/demonstration by God it would take to…
Popular Misconceptions: Knowing Truth
In my last post I talked about how difficult it was to move from absolute belief not holding any belief and how, despite everything you know being turned on it’s…
Popular Misconceptions: The Definition of Atheism
Quite a few of the conversations I’ve been involved in with theists lately seem to start off with a basic misconception about what atheism actually is. Since there is such…
Rules of Engagement
I don’t particularly like to use terms of war when I discuss what I call Positive Atheism – or activist atheism if you will. In this case I find it rather difficult to…