I’m heading to the American Atheists convention for a few days. If you’re there, please say hello 🙂 The rest of you, be good while I’m gone! Hopefully, the spambots won’t come back and make crazy comments. And if the hotel makes me pay for Internet use, I’m going to be grumpy when I return. There must be free Wi-Fi somewhere in Seattle… Read more
Jimmy at Fluid Faith asks an interesting question: Why doesn’t anyone pray for God to suspend or violate the Laws of Math? People always pray for God to intervene in scientific realms like helping a patient deal with a biological disease, but they never pray for the rules of math to be broken. For example, Jimmy writes, you would never hear the following prayer: “God, we pray that these Ds and Fs that Sean has earned in his classes will… Read more
There’s been a big brouhaha in the secular community over the use of the word “fundamentalist” to describe people like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. The word just doesn’t seem appropriate, especially when that word is used to describe religious people who adhere to the literal words in a holy book regardless of what common sense and science will tell them. The vocal atheists have reason and logic behind their beliefs. That alone makes them stand out. Dawkins himself has… Read more
Christ Getting In Shape For Second ComingHEAVEN—Since His birthday last Dec. 25, the Lamb of God has committed Himself to a demanding regimen of exercise and prophecy-fulfillment in preparation for the Second Coming. Read more
At a speaking engagement I did recently, a man came up to me and gave me photocopies of a couple op-ed pieces he had written for a local paper (with a sizable readership). I’m not sure what he wanted me to do with them exactly, as they had very little to do with atheism… anyway, they were well-written and all, but I was more intrigued by the short bios of him that were printed at the end of his pieces:… Read more
Easter is approaching and Lent is almost over! So, what did you give up? And yes, atheists can participate. (Side note: A friend once said she gave up religion for Lent. She’s now an atheist.) [tags]atheist, atheism, Lent, Easter[/tags] Read more
For many Christians, you’re in for one hell of a time when telling your family and friends your spouse is an atheist. It’s hard enough for atheists to come out to our own parents, but to tell the religious people in your life that you’re going to breed with a heathen, that’s gotta be rough. (And if any Christians on this site have ever had to do that, I’d *love* to hear the stories. I would ask atheists, too, but… Read more
Remember that Time magazine cover from a couple weeks ago? The one about teaching the Bible in public schools? Well, apparently Time felt that was a more important (and better selling) issue in America than the resurgence of terrorist organizations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Huffington Post’s Eat the Press sheds more light on this and gives us another recent example of Newsweek doing something similar. (via Registan.net) [tags]atheist, atheism, Time, magazine, cover, Bible, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Huffington Post, Eat The… Read more
Here’s a research summary excerpt you won’t be seeing in the United States anytime soon: Two thirds of UK adults (66%) or 32.2 million people have no connection with church at present (nor with another religion). These people are evenly divided between those who have been in the past but have since left (16 million) and those who have never been in their lives (16.2 million). This secular majority presents a major challenge to churches. Most of them – 29.3… Read more
I don’t know whether Paula Zahn is trying to atone for the mess she made with the atheist community or whether she just enjoys digging a deeper hole for herself… But for what it’s worth, Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists, will be Paula’s guest tonight at 8:00 EST on CNN. According to the announcement: Johnson will be discussing the recent Newsweek poll revealing that 91% of Americans believe in deity, half reject the findings of evolutionary science, and 62%… Read more
