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Preserving Faith

Daniel Dennett writes of the American fundamentalist superstitions.

April 16, 2006

Jesus Beyond the Grave

The doubtful, conflicting gospel New Testament accounts of Jesus Christ's Easter resurrection.

Who wants to believe a lie?

There is no intelligent designer, god is just an imaginary friend.

December 16, 2005

The Darkness of Fundamentalist Unreason

Lord May condemns Roman Catholic Church for opposition to condoms to save people from AIDS.

December 5, 2005

The Atheist Lifestyle

Attention Christians: atheism isn't a faith nor it is a lifestyle. It is a refusal to accept unverifable premises.

November 15, 2005

Why Do People Have Faith in God?

An examination of delugion and irrationality.

November 9, 2005

Can you be a good scientist and believe in God?

Christianity and science don't mix.

October 17, 2005

Secular Americans Are Freaks

How the right-wing Christian majority may crush science and reason.

October 12, 2005

Lori Lipman Brown

America's lobbyist for atheism is in Washington to fight the right wing conservative Christian fundagelicals.

October 9, 2005

The Afterlife is Just a Bunch of Gobba-Lobba-Ob

Spook Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach.

Religious Faith is Bad For You, Bad For Societies

Belief in God more common in ingorant, mentally ill people and nations like America.

September 27, 2005

Atheists vs. the Majority

Happily skeptical, secular men and women will always be a minority in a world of gullible, naïve believers.

September 22, 2005

David Hume - greatest philosopher of all time?

Was the 18th Century Scottish philosopher the greatest thinker in the history of the world?

July 11, 2005

Varieties of atheism

Dylan Evan's: The 21st century atheist

May 25, 2005

Ignorant Kansans

Enemies of science and creationists abuse scientists' words for political advantage.

Push back the theocrats

Atheist backlash?

May 23, 2005

Christians with bullhorns

Atheist convention on Good Friday: Atheists have nothing else to do on Easter and hotels are cheaper, flights are cheaper.

March 26, 2005

Are there fewer atheists today?

Christians are fooling themselves if they really believe that atheism is in decline.

March 23, 2005

H.P. Lovecraft and materialism

Unlike many horror writers Lovecraft wasn't caught up in romantic or spiritual junk. He was a hardcore atheist and materialist.

March 16, 2005

Agnosticism

Agnosticism is a bad compromise

October 26, 2004

The Reverend Bush

Scholarly history of American secular thought and freethinkers.

September 2, 2004

Bill Maher is Satan

Rev. Keenan Roberts of the Destiny Church is offended by the Center for Inquiry's use of his Hell House product. Skeptics and atheists will mock his message of Sin and Damnation!

August 17, 2004

Bullshit! Season 3

Penn and Teller's debunking TV show Bullshit renewed for third season on Shotime.

July 28, 2004

Religious representations are sustained by a whole variety of different systems

Psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience offer a more empirical understanding of religions.

June 24, 2004

Who's driving the anti-Enlightenment?

Wheen writes of an incongruous coalition of postmodernists and primitivists, New Age and Old Testament

May 28, 2004

The Science of Good and Evil

Michael Shermer interviewed on the publication of The Science of Good and Evil

May 6, 2004

American freethinkers

Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

April 26, 2004

Alabama: atheists are (will be) all wet

Alabama politicians oppose atheist gathering, meeting

April 24, 2004

Penn Jillette on faith

Penn Jillette talks about his and Teller's TV program Bullshit!, which exposes charlatans and quacks

April 23, 2004

One Convention So Over God

30th annual national convention of the American Atheists

April 15, 2004

Me 'n' Jesus

Fool enought to get saved, smart enough to become an atheist

April 13, 2004

The Good News is massively outweighed by the bad

Iain Macwhirter reads the Bible

April 11, 2004

Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism

Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby

South Park vs. Mel Gibson's Passion

South Park on Comedy Central mocks Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ

April 10, 2004

The Darwinian adaptability of American religions

Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture reviewed by Michael Shermer

April 5, 2004

Atheist school student punished

Washington school student punished for taking under god out of the pledge of allegiance

April 2, 2004

Bullshit Season 2: Penn & Teller take on the Bible

Christian Bible is subject of Penn and Teller's Bullshit TV show season two

April 1, 2004

Why are skeptics & atheists dowdy & dull?

Skeptical magazines like Free Inquiry and Skeptical Inquirer are just plain dull and boring

March 30, 2004

Christians kill magnetic Jesus

Christian outrage causes magnetic dress-up Jesus to be cancelled by merchant

March 24, 2004

Mob toting Bibles spat on her

Saginaw Michigan atheist abused by local Christians and county officials

How many people have been killed in the name of atheism?

Religious faith is less common among educated Americans

March 23, 2004

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! The First Season on DVD

Penn & Teller's Showtime series debunking frauds and delusions released on DVD

What's an atheist mother to do?

Atheist mother is surprised by her daughter's belief in God

March 11, 2004

Godless Americans Political Action Committee

Impractical atheists form Godless Americans Political Action Committee hoping to influence elections

March 10, 2004

Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience

Freeman Dyson on Littlewood's Law of Miracles and Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience by Georges Charpak, Henri Broch

An atheist homelamd

Atheists need their own country, nation

February 24, 2004

Look mom, I got an "A" in atheism

Atheism added to British school curriculum, atheist education in classrooms

February 16, 2004

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World

A skeptic looks at how new age nonsense and antiscientific credulity have rose during the 20th century

February 15, 2004

Darwin Day

Darwin Day honors Charles Darwin and takes a stand against creationism and creation bogus science

February 12, 2004

The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O’Hair

Reason magazine, Tim Cavanaugh's review of The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O’Hair

February 8, 2004

Faith is one of the world's great evils

Richard Dawkins: religion is worse than smallpox

February 7, 2004

Fired for atheism

Woman fired for being an atheist

February 3, 2004

Freethought Society loses

Chester County courthouse. plaque of the Ten Commandments lawsuit

January 29, 2004

Utah atheists vs. public prayer

Utah Atheists seek to make prayer equal or to eliminate political prayers

January 22, 2004

If you don't believe in God you're evil

January 18, 2004

Raelians = Christians = Nuts

Christians are as silly, foolish as Raelians

January 16, 2004

God: what a SOB

God is a terrorist, look how he treated Adam and Eve

January 6, 2004

Outside, Looking In

Gil Gaudia, atheist, author of Outside, Looking In

January 4, 2004

Michael Shermer interviewed at SciScoop

Series of interview of Michael Shermer at SciScoop

December 31, 2003

He now calls Christianity a nice myth