It is relatively easy to go and speak to a crowd who agrees with you on most of the issues…
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Scott M. Sullivan has apparently banned me from making comments on his Facebook page so these articles must be getting…
Scott M. Sullivan’s video series on “How to argue with an atheist” is getting out of control. I have already…
Last time I responded to the first episode of Scott M. Sullivan’s YouTube series on “How To Argue With An…
Yesterday a sign went up in front of the Ten Commandments Church in Georgia. The sign reads, “Homosexuality is an…
I recently received a heart wrenching message from an atheist who is about to lose her husband of 23 years…
The world can be a pretty cruel place and people tend to be self-consumed at times. Random acts of kindness are rare and yet over the weekend, I was the recipient of two such acts. However, one was a little less random than the other and the kindness of one might have been more self-consumed than the other as well.
In the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo, I think it is a good time to discuss the relationship between religion and jokes. Purely from an observational standpoint, it very much appears to me that the more religious someone is, the less of a sense of humor they tend to have.
If you could be any superhero, you should always choose Batman. It is a basic law of comic book geekery. In a fight between Batman and pretty anyone, Batman always wins. Batman is a detective who researches his adversary, finds their weakness, and figures out how to exploit it. While he cannot fly, doesn’t have heat vision, can’t command the fish with telepathy, or have any other supernatural abilities, he does have the super power of logic.
As an atheist, I get asked about the First Cause constantly despite the fact that any theist could just Google it and learn that the First Cause Argument was refuted hundreds of years ago. Not only that, but it has been refuted in multiple different ways. Still, religious believers will question atheists on this and insert their poor interpretation of what an atheist’s answer might be.