Agoraphilia

Crazy .

Dinesh D'Souza feigns ignorance . Yes, I agree that many nominal Christians have also forgotten the message of Christmas. Even so I wond...

The new CW television show “ Reaper ,” in addition to being relatively funny, also raises an intriguing theological question. The premise o...

After my Al Sharpton post , I had a brief exchange with Gene Callahan in his comments section. Short version: Callahan claims that “God i...

Arguing with Al Sharpton is like shooting fish in a barrel; evening mentioning his name on this blog makes me feel a little cheap. But this...

Dinesh D’Souza’s screed on how the VA Tech tragedy illustrates the deficiency of atheism is a steaming pile of offensive crap . Julian and...

Eugene makes the excellent point that passages from religious texts don’t tell us much about current religious practice. While the Koran ...

Jane Galt calls herself an “ agnotheist ,” which she defines as “an agnostic who puts a very, very low – yet non-zero! – value on P(God).” ...

Via Hit & Run (and also Balko ), I learn that some Christian fundies have blamed Katrina’s fury on the moral depravity of New Orleans,...

When I had lunch with Julian , Amy , and Tim on Saturday, the following intriguing question came up: If you were a Muslim, and you died an...

Does maintaining a strict separation of church and state presuppose the existence of a sharp distinction between religious and secular matte...

I saw a sticker slapped on a newsstand this morning. It read: GODISNOWHERE At first I assumed the message was an atheist one: GOD IS NOWHER...

When it comes to marriage, what’s an atheist libertarian to do? What kind of ceremony is appropriate, and who ought to officiate? For an a...

Radley links to this pants-wettingly funny Onion article , from the Onion’s first post-9/11 issue. The article got me thinking about the e...

An audiotape with the voice of an Al Qaeda officer threatens more terrorist attacks – and criticizes France’s ban on Muslim head scarves in...

Religious visions of reward-and-punishment in the afterlife fall into two basic categories. One category consists of what I will call “prec...

Revelation Rumination What is the difference between an atheist and an agnostic? The simple answer is that the atheist denies the exist...

Those Wacky Raelians So the Raelians -- you know, the religious cult that claims to have created the first human clone -- believe that sci...