Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills m….
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excisi….
Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of unive….
The Romans called the Christians atheists. Why? Well, the Christians had a god of sorts, but it wasn't a real god. They didn't believe in the divinit….
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid..
Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong..
I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the spe….
My parents were secular. I am an atheist..
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense..
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the ….
We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the con….
The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before..
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence..
How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I….
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history..
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel..
Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach..
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world..
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and disposses….
In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Engli….
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat..