Meaning of Life: Humans and Other Animals
JULY 12, 2020 BY JONATHAN MS PEARCE We humans often think we have to have some ultimate meaning or purpose: this is one of the draws or perks, supposedly, of…
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Owen Benjamin and His Personal Army (Collided With Reality)
JULY 11, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! Need a jolt of good — or at least funny — news for your weekend? This might just do ya.…
When Christians Treat God Like a Baby
JULY 11, 2020 BY BOB SEIDENSTICKER My oldest granddaughter is now four years old, and I remember playing with her in her first year. I found myself treating her like…
Not Everyone Has Accepted Women’s Suffrage
JULY 8, 2020 BY LIBBY ANNE If your social media feeds are anything like mine, you’ve seen advertisements for the new PBS series The Vote, which focuses on the suffragette…
The Great American Happiness Cliff
JULY 8, 2020 BY ADAM LEE America is not okay. That’s the takeaway from a new poll from the National Opinion Research Center which found that Americans are the unhappiest…
Pressley hits DeVos over reopening schools: ‘I wouldn’t trust you to care for a house plant let alone my child’
BY ARIS FOLLEY – 07/12/20 07:00 PM EDT Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) swiped at Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Sunday after the Trump administration official doubled down on her push…
Downward, Christian Soldiers
JULY 1, 2020 BY ADAM LEE When trying to explain the decline of Christianity in America, a common apologist refrain is that it’s the squishy liberal mainstream churches that are…
Is Your Prolife Stance Really Pro-Life?
JULY 4, 2020 BY KARL J. FOREHAND One reality of our political climate in the United States is that it divides us up into identifiable camps. While it doesn’t make…
The emperor’s new clothes
JULY 3, 2020 BY GERALD MCDERMOTT Almost two hundred years ago Hans Christian Anderson told the story of an emperor obsessed with clothes who hires two clothiers to make him…
2000 Years of Disbelief: Albert Einstein
JULY 6, 2020 BY JAMES A. HAUGHT By James A. Haught This is the 21st segment of a series on renowned skeptics throughout history. These profiles are drawn from 2000…
Creationists Are Desperately Trying to “Cancel” Charles Darwin
BY HEMANT MEHTA JULY 6, 2020 The video below, from my new YouTube channel (please subscribe!), discusses whether Charles Darwin needs to be “canceled” and what that means for evolution.…
The U.S. Government Gave Nearly $10 Billion in Forgivable Loans to Churches
BY HEMANT MEHTA JULY 7, 2020 A few months ago, when the seriousness of the pandemic was finally making itself known, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security…
Prelate praised ‘beauty’ of the RC church at an SF exorcism
JULY 6, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE LAST month protesters toppled a statue of St Junípero Serra, a ‘brutal’ 18th century Spanish priest who founded nine of California’s 21 Spanish missions…
Christian “Prophetess”: I’m the Reason Satan Didn’t Disrupt Your Holiday Weekend
BY HEMANT MEHTA JULY 6, 2020 Kat Kerr, the self-proclaimed Christian “Prophetess” who thinks Heaven is home to cows driving tractors and a city made entirely out of Jell-O, says…
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What if we Re-Thought the Pro-Life Movement?
JULY 6, 2020 BY MARY PEZZULO I thought it would make bigger news this weekend, when pro-life icon Abby Johnson said that her son isn’t Black after all. In case…
Trump Spiritual Adviser Paula White Claims She Made White House ‘Holy Ground’
JULY 9, 2019 BY MICHAEL STONE Hubris for Jesus: President Trump’s spiritual adviser, Pastor Paula White, claims the White House is “holy ground” because, according to the Trump-loving televangelist, wherever…
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A Personal Example of Manifested Systemic Racism
JULY 7, 2020 BY JONATHAN MS PEARCE I spend an awful lot of time arguing about racism with people in my personal life, both on Facebook and face-to-face. I have…
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Protestantism without the Christianity
JULY 7, 2020 BY GENE VEITH Here is another word for you: Post-Protestant. The term refers to the Protestant mindset that continues, even though the Protestant religious beliefs that formed…
Virginia Senator Amanda Chase Claims Only ‘Naive And Unprepared’ Women Get Raped
JULY 12, 2019 BY MICHAEL STONE Victim blaming: Virginia Senator Amanda Chase blames women for being raped, claiming only “naive and unprepared” women are raped. Senator Chase made her obnoxious…
Top Ten Reasons NOT to Go to Church (especially during a pandemic)
JULY 7, 2020 BY KARL J. FOREHAND Recently people headed back to their favorite sanctuaries: bars, beaches and church buildings. All the other mass gatherings have abstained (except for one…