America’s New Religion and the Scandal of the Cross
JULY 10, 2020 BY FREDERICK SCHMIDT There has been more than one article of late that rightly describes the progressive politics of our day as a religion. And there is…
J.K. Rowling Leads Right Wing Attack Against Trans People
JUNE 11, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Disappointing: After posting a series of anti-trans tweets, J.K. Rowling has become an unlikely leader in the right wing assault on transgender people. Media…
Trump Makes Racist Joke At Arizona Megachurch And Conservatives Cheer
JUNE 24, 2020 BY MICHAEL STONE Deplorable: Delivering a campaign speech at an Arizona megachurch, Trump made a despicable racist joke attacking Asian Americans, and the overwhelmingly young white crowd…
Workers, officials say too little too late after Tyson closes Waterloo pork plant: ‘All they talked about was production’
By Ann Colwell, Dianne Gallagher, Pamela Kirkland and Konstantin Toropin, CNN Updated 9:05 PM ET, Wed April 22, 2020 The Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Waterloo, Iowa, has a workforce…
Pope says, if you try to convert an unbeliever, you are “not a disciple of Jesus”
JANUARY 3, 2020 BY GENE VEITH First, Pope Francis was quoted as saying “There is no Hell.” Later, he reportedly denied the deity of Christ, saying that while Jesus lived…
Spanking and the Culture of Violence Has Worldwide Consequences
JANUARY 3, 2020 BY SUZANNE TITKEMEYER Sorry, but I’m a bit late getting off the bubble today and getting this up. But I have a good excuse, since late last…
Catholicism scholar: ‘Religion has done more harm than good’
JANUARY 3, 2020 BY RICK SNEDEKER I had never seen the word “disgust” characterized as positive. Now I have, and it’s a powerful hypothesis. Eminent Northwestern University theologian and religious…
Harvard Law Professor: Atheists “Can’t Be Trusted” to Hold Public Office
BY HEMANT MEHTA DECEMBER 31, 2019 I’m not a Harvard law student, much less a Harvard law professor, but Adrian Vermeule is. Which is why it’s all the more disturbing…
Tennessee Deputy Indicted After Forcing Woman To Choose Between Baptism Or Jail
DECEMBER 11, 2019 BY MICHAEL STONE Jesus or Jail: A deputy in rural Tennessee has been indicted on multiple charges after giving a woman busted with marijuana in her car…
Christopher Hitchens Q&A
UCLA Author and journalist Christopher Hitchens takes questions from audience during his March 3, 2010, Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA. The lecture was presented by the UCLA Burkle Center…
Christopher Hitchens Ripping Islam Apart
Christopher Hitchens Ripping Islam Apart is a compilation video of some amazing moments of our beloved and dearly missed Christopher Hitchens. Christopher Eric Hitchens was an author, columnist, essayist, orator,…
The Future of Morality
The apologetics for this is infuriating. It’s terrifying that modern – seemingly civilized people – so nonchalantly offer these horrid defenses. How can we get through to those who dehumanize…
Omniscience: Does God Destroy Freedom by Seeing our Futures?
NOVEMBER 23, 2019 BY FELLOW DYING INMATE Omniscience—God knows everything, but our free future actions lack existence. Omniscience is the knowledge attributed to God. But what does omniscience mean? What…
A Pennsylvania bill would require death certificates for fertilized eggs that never implant in the uterus
Julia Naftulin Nov 27, 2019, 10:23 AMSnapchat Anti-abortion lawmakers in Pennsylvania want to pass a bill that would require burials and, as a result, death certificates for “fetal remains,” which…
Coping With Religious Family Over the Holidays
NOVEMBER 27, 2019 BY COURTNEY HEARD This is a guest post from Dr. Marlene Winell, a human development consultant, educator, and writer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Winell…
The Jesus Beatings Shall Continue Until Salvation Improves (Only God Can)
Hello and welcome back! Lately we’ve been talking about the horrible Christian movie Only God Can. In it, we encounter a great many tropes beloved of evangelicals. And one of…
Atheist Billboard in Knoxville (TN) Calls God and Government “a Dangerous Mix”
BY HEMANT MEHTA NOVEMBER 1, 2019 A billboard that just went up in Knoxville, Tennessee warns people that “God & Government a Dangerous Mix.” It’s sponsored by the East Tennessee…
It Was Never about a Fetal Heartbeat
JULY 22, 2019 BY LIBBY ANNE187 COMMENTS In May, Live Science published an article titled “Is a ‘Fetal Heartbeat’ Really a Heartbeat at Six Weeks?” The article begins as follows:…