I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that God is a fabrication of man. The bad news is that it will cost you to learn that this good news is true. …(Cost you time, study, some friends, family associations, labor to un-learn and then to acquire true principles of […]
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Hume’s Maxim. This is priceless. I wish to hang it in my study. source: On Miracles by David Hume
Read MoreCNN PRODUCER NOTE TXBlue08, a mother of two teenagers in Texas, blogs about raising her children without religion. She said she shared this essay on CNN iReport because ‘I just felt there is not a voice out there for women/moms like me. I think people misunderstand or are fearful of people who don’t believe in […]
Read MoreLet us challenge religion to leave children alone until they are adults, whereupon they can be presented with the essentials of religion for mature consideration.
Read MoreIt is terrible to see a man who has the incomprehensible in his grasp, does not know what to do with it, and sits playing with a toy called God. -Tolstoy Of all the questions men and women have asked of themselves and of each other, down through the ages, can there be any as […]
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How can you tell a god-fearing person that their belief is childish and silly? I’m sure that using the words “childish and silly” is a non-starter. But how do you do it? I love the Beatles song “Imagine.” — John Lenin, who obviously knew from experience that one cannot tell another, straight out, that there […]
Read MoreAnn’s article in the Skeptical Inquirer has a header paragraph that’s a beautiful message: It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life’s […]
Read MoreOne day I was paid a personally meaningful compliment by a friend that I run with. He said, “[Atom] is one of the most moral people I know.” He said this to the small group — all mormons — in response to a line of conversation about morality, knowing that I am a non-believer. That’s […]
Read More…exerpt from Vanity Fair article : I am trying my best not to view things through a smug later prism. Only the Almighty can scan matters sub specie aeternitatis: from the viewpoint of eternity. One must also avoid cultural and historical relativism: there’s no point in retroactively ordering the Children of Israel to develop a germ […]
Read MoreShe’s telling all the other children that they better make sure their homes are made of brick too or they might get eaten by a wolf.
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