Thinking Out Loud

It boggles the mind. Christianity relies upon two bodies of scripture. The Old and New Testaments. Look at the Old Testament and you find God orders raped virgin girls to marry their rapists. And God ...

There are some verses in the Qur’an that are horribly problematic for Muslims. These are verses that are so clearly wrong that an average 10-year-old could spot the errors. The question is, why ...

Christians and Muslims often smugly pronounce that they have a huge advantage over atheists. When we atheists die we expect to become slush — we expect the lights to go out forever. For us, death is t...

A close look at Islamic Paradise reveals much about the religion. Islamic Paradise was designed to appeal to poor men living in the harsh conditions of Arabia—sweltering heat, limited choice of food a...

I never assume religious people are unintelligent when I begin talking to them, they are often very intelligent, but I do expect them to use broken, fallacious and thoroughly debunked arguments. No on...

Have you been an atheist since college? Maybe High School or earlier? Congratulations from your recently awakened atheist counterparts who’ve spent most of our lives engulfed in religious delusion! Wh...

Sometimes looking back can give us insight into the future. There are things we intuitively understand today that would have been incomprehensible, even absurd, to people in the past. The Spherical Ea...

Lehman Brothers, General Motors, Texaco, Global Crossing, and United Airlines are companies with two things in common; they were huge and successful, and they became bankrupt. From the inside, it must...

We live on an unstable giant rock hurtling around a humongous nuclear-powered furnace at 67,000 miles per hour. The rock is simultaneously spinning on its own axis so we are all subject to rotational ...

Christians often implore me to find God. They assure me, if I seek God, I will find him. I know it’s possible to find gods. The ancient Greeks found Aphrodite, the ancient Persians found Ahura M...

The human brain has many functions. Some functions keep our bodies working such as controlling our temperature, breathing, moving muscles, providing balance and so on. Other functions relate to our pe...

It is undeniable that human knowledge has advanced exponentially over the past few hundred years. Two keys enabled us to unlock this knowledge: the first was a willingness to put aside some of the sup...