So a selection of snakes has again been pushed out of the Emerald Isle. Atheist Ireland has dissociated itself from PZ…
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They are barbarous, loathsome, bloodthirsty, and very scary—yet, according to their own lights, they are doing exactly what their deity…
In ancient Carthage, infants were murdered, cremated, and buried under stone thank-you notes to the gods, in return for services…
I knew it was going to be bad when the trailer showed a Great Pyramid under construction in New Kingdom…
About a generation ago, a charismatic preacher and self-proclaimed Jesus called James Warren Jones took about a thousand of his…
Over the last hundred-odd years, dozens of men and also a few women have claimed to be Jesus Christ, back…
If Christ set up his ministry today, said Thomas Carlyle, people would not crucify him. “They would ask him to…
Moral panics come in many different flavours. Some are fomented at the top levels of society, some at the grass-roots,…
So I was sorting through the battered box where I toss odd scraps of to-be-filed-eventually paper, going back several years—notes,…
Lots of people take up hobbies when they retire—gardening, carpentry, music lessons, painting. William Tapley, retired furniture engineer of Forestport,…