I got an email from an atheist student attending a Christian college yesterday. She has to do the following assignment for a class: Read Peter Kreeft’s webpage ‘Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God’… Evaluate arguments 6, 14, 16, 18, and 19 and select the one that you would feel most comfortable using when trying to convince an open-minded non-believer in the existence of God. Write an essay analyzing your argument. Be sure to take into account of the following… Read more
Republicans in Iowa want to ban gay marriage in the state: An Iowa House panel will begin hearings Monday on a bill that would repeal gay marriage in the state. The Iowa Marriage Amendment (IMA) seeks to put a question on the 2013 ballot that would define marriage in the Iowa constitution as a heterosexual union –- and thereby reverse the 2009 Iowa Supreme Court ruling that brought gay marriage to the Midwest. That’s not the reason I’m posting this,… Read more
Normally, the way people link their vehicle with religion is by putting a few bumper stickers on it: I know atheists who have done that, too. Some atheists have taken a different path by purchasing their state’s ATHEIST license plate: Since his state’s ATHEIST plate is already taken (by August Berkshire, above), Minnesotan Bjorn decided he wanted something far more overt. When he purchased a used smart car in 2009, he turned it into a driving advertisement for the OUT… Read more
If you like going to basketball games or watching them on TV, you’re used to hearing the national anthem. But if you’re a fan of the New Orleans Hornets, are you aware of what happens before the anthem is sung? According to Joe Gerrity at Hornets247 (an unofficial fan site): Before each and every Hornets game for as long as the team has been in existence, a Christian invocation is done at half court before the national anthem, in which… Read more
The Hawaii state Senate has voted to no longer hold a daily prayer. What’s amazing is how Hawaii is only the first state to do this. And what prompted this decision? One person’s complaint about how this was a Christian-specific prayer, not an “all-inclusive” prayer like so many city councils and state legislatures pretend to use. A citizen’s complaint had prompted the American Civil Liberties Union last summer to send the Senate a letter noting that its invocations often referenced… Read more
