Commentary
A Sunday School Story Not Fit For Children
This is going to be a break from the usual type of blog I write. Why? Well, the psychological effects religious indoctrination has on a child’s mind is something I take seriously. This is a pers...
What Would a Secular World Look Like?
A secular world doesn’t guarantee a better one. However, I won’t refrain from addressing the largest impediment to achieving one, religion, just because there are others. The type of secul...
Faith as Biohazard
Can God save you from the coronavirus? Of course not. Do people believe that it can? Absolutely. From throwing events to intentionally expose yourself to the virus to exorcising demons that they say h...
Refuting The Gloom and Doom of Christianity
Christianity sees the world as irredeemably fallen and man as inherently broken. The Age of Enlightenment challenged this notion and recognized and promoted the fact that humans have made immense prog...
Why Counter-Apologetics? An Introduction to Apologetics and It’s Methods
Apologetics, from the Greek word apologia meaning “speaking in defense”, is a system of argumentation in defense of religious doctrine from criticism. In Christianity, apologetics has been used since ...
Fishers of humanity
Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. ~ Matthew 4:19 If you’re an avid fisherman, you understand the importance of two things: If you want to catch them, you have to have the right lure, tech...
This Is Not What Democracy Looks Like
“Show us what democracy looks like!” “This is what democracy looks like!” This is one of the many chants that were repeated at a Black Lives Matter protest and sit in that I attended...
Is the West Built on Christian Values?
Christianity is about obedience and authority (even submission to worldly authority which is assigned by God), not freedom. The Abrahamic God is a tyrant. Scripture says nothing about democracy and Ch...
GHOSTS in the BRAIN
Paranormal investigator and magician, Joe Nickell, of the Center for Inquiry has noted on many occasions that when he first got into solving claims of the paranormal, he thought friends and family wou...
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
Did thought create the universe? We can probably all agree there is a universe, or at least SOMETHING. There at least seems to be thoughts being thought about that something. We know our thoughts and ...
Secularism vs Covidiots
“I truly believe that #Secularism is the only safeguard against religious oppression and barbarism.” Michael Sherlock, April 2, 2020 The words of the newly appointed Executive Director of Atheist Al...
Secular Principles of the American Founding Fathers
America’s liberties are under threat. American Christian nationalists want to establish a theocracy, one dogmatically guided just as those Islamic countries under sharia law. One of their central talk...