Occupation: Author Birth: August 3, 1952
Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear….
When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating evolution. In other words, less creed, ….
The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?.
We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father..
People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them..
Donald Trump is not a very bright or nice man. Bad combination..
Science "says" nothing. People say things and knowledge changes..
Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible….
I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static..
All we know about Jesus is what someone else wrote down... so really one should say, "Here is what someone wrote down that they said Jesus said..." t….
North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the ….
You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just hired - Preside….
The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castiga….
Since science is fashionable today, it allows its fraternity to propose cloddish monstrosities as a solution to man's problems in many fields. Fashio….
We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. W….
There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who st….
The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or t….
There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah..
Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money..
Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure..
Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption..