Atheists vs. Believers: It’s exactly what they want.
Another day, another pie fight. Actually, last I checked in on the highly-rec’d diary that has spent most of the day on the wreck-list, it wasn’t much of a pie fight. It was mostly atheists,...
View ArticleMerry Secular Christmas
As one who is deeply immersed in the culture wars, I sometimes surprise people when I tell them that I do indeed celebrate Christmas. How can an activist humanist (whose national secular group last...
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I am the only openly secular candidate for the Virginia General Assembly. AMA.
This time last year, I was a candidate for Chesapeake Public School Board. I wrote an article last year about the need for more secular elected officials in our country. Sadly, not much has changed...
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I Gave My Kidney. Will You Give $100?
Late last year, I donated my spare kidney to someone I don’t know. And one day, I hope you’ll consider doing the same. But in the meanwhile, I have a different request: could you help fund these great...
View ArticleReligious Fraud and Illegitimate Authority
When I studied at Harvard Divinity School, Master of Divinity ’93, it became evident that our old religions — all part of our very early efforts to understand and cope with the withering and...
View ArticleSeven Taboo Political Subjects
America is a free-speech haven. Or so we like to assume.There is always a think tank, advocate, pundit or lunatic ready to engage on nearly any subject under the sun, from UFOs to AI to the ABCs. Even...
View ArticlePlease do not compare fiction to reality
Earlier today I read an article titled “The Secular Worldview has Gaps that Need to be Bridged“. I wanted to address the issues I had with the author’s viewpoint outside of just writing a comment.Their...
View ArticleA Non-Religious Thanksgiving Prayer
Sometimes one is asked to “say a few words” before a Thanksgiving meal. What should one say, when:One is not religious and/or does not identify with the predominant religious identity of the assembled...
View ArticleThe need for secular elected officials has never been greater!
In the wake of anti-Freedom *From* Religious rulings in the cases of Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District (high school football coach leading prayer on the football field) and Carson v. Makin (forcing...
View ArticleThoughts provoked by novapsyche's religion diary and the discussions on it
I decided this comment I wrote on novapsyche’s recent diary was substantial enough to rate a diary of its own, with some revision and expansion. In particular, I was moved to respond to this paragraph...
View ArticleHow Will We Pay for a Green New Deal? An Answer from MMT.
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:Introduction:I sent out the letter which I have reproduced below to business and civic leaders in the Frostburg, Western Maryland region, regretting that I could not...
View ArticleSecular Thoughts On Resurrection (Sunday Morning @TheVillage)
Sometimes it feels as if the whole world is crumbling around us. But the world has never really been as stable as we like to think, and in an existence that is constantly in flux, we can take comfort...
View ArticleDo you value tradition? If so how do you keep it/what do you base it off of?
Tradition… one definition:the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way.I very much value tradition. It is a strong part of my...
View ArticleSocial Conservatives - what they have in common across the world
What is common among social conservatives the world over? In the US, White Christian Evangelists come to mind. In the Muslim world, extremists come to mind. One segment that gets a free pass — the...
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Dear Fellow Atheists, It’s Time to Break Up with Sam Harris
For ten years, Sam Harris was an intellectual hero of mine. As I transitioned out of evangelical Christianity into atheism at eighteen, Sam’s books The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation...
View ArticleWhy are Atheists Excluded from the ‘COEXIST’ Club?
I’ll wager that nearly all of us have seen the “COEXIST” bumper sticker that touts religious tolerance, respect, multiculturalism and the like. And I’ll likewise wager that those who display it haven’t...
View ArticleFundamentally, why does the Christian right support Donald Trump?
(Note: In the following essay, I use the terms Christian fundamentalists, Christian right, and Evangelicals interchangeably. There may be differences of meaning in the terms, but I basically use all...
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Donald Trump Spilled the GOP Beans (Again)
I just received this email from peaceteam... Too good not to pass on. Kudos Peaceteam.netthinkingblue Dear Carolyn (aka thinkingblue),The latest firestorm started by a certain Republican presidential...
View ArticleSome religious and non-religious humor.
Feel free to put up your favorite religious or non-religious jokes.I’ll get the ball started with some of my favorites...
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