When I was leaving the Reason Rally, there were some fundamentalist Christians standing at the edge of the rally area…
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Last week, the Church of England tweeted out prayers for well-known atheist, Richard Dawkins as he recovers from a recent…
Why is it that Christians get a pass for saying horrific crazy crap that no one else would dare say…
In the early 80s when I was in elementary school, my friend built a computer for the science fair. She…
Rainbow smoke has cleared the tower of the Supreme Court this morning and they have ruled in favor of marriage…
In a recent interview on CNN, Muslim apologist Reza Aslan made it clear that barbaric practices like female genital mutilation and the treatment of women in a few Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran has no place in the 21st century. However, he doesn’t think this has anything to do with Islam. The fact that so many countries ruled by Muslim theocracies also just so happen to treat women as horribly must be a coincidence.
A few years ago, I got into a religious conversation with my ultra-Jewish cousin. This was a long awaiting exchange of ideas. My cousin is very smart and so I was expecting a pretty interesting debate-style conversation. What I got was the same typical arguments I have gotten from newly minted born-again Christians.
I’ve been an atheist activist for a long time now and I want to tell you why. It isn’t just because I lack a belief in deities; it is because I have realized that belief in deities has and continues to impede human progress – not just technologically, but morally.