Never enter hell on a full bladder
While a new year has arrived, there is plenty of evidence that as we begin the second decade of the 21st century, for many of us our minds have not evolved past 33 A.D. That is the year that some...
View ArticleThe Antichrists have arrived and they are called Christians
Sorry, Jesus. But it appears that most of the people who claim to follow you are more in line with Satan than with God. At least that’s the way it seems lately. Yes, I know my observations are...
View ArticleDecking the secular halls
So an atheist, a Buddhist, a Unitarian Universalist (me), his un-churched sister, her sarcastic college age son and the cynical brother who says he only worships Baal get together for dinner. The...
View ArticleGoing to the dogs
It was a brief moment today. I was driving to work through a residential neighborhood. As I often do on Tuesdays, I had to wend my way past the trash truck. I give these guys a brake and wait for them...
View ArticleThe path to genuine enlightenment
Religious violence is hardly news. Religious violence, such as what is currently going on between Shi’ites and Sunnis in Iraq, should drive millions of people to atheism. No God worth worshipping could...
View ArticleWhy I am not a Christian
It’s curious that after nearly twelve years of blogging I have never really explained my theology or lack thereof. I have given snippets of it from time to time, mostly in critiquing other religions....
View ArticleDeath by religion
Some years back I wrote about Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism, and how I thought it was not only so much crap but dangerous and thoroughly discredited crap as well. It received some modest...
View ArticleToday Jesus would be an atheist
My new home in Northampton, Massachusetts in some ways is not much different than life in the Washington D.C. region where I used to live. For example, there are plenty of homeless people here too....
View ArticleSome questions for pro-lifers
I do have some friends that are pro-life. There’s nothing wrong with that and certainly in principle since the opposite of pro-life is pro-death, well who really wants to be that? Pro-life though...
View ArticleThe devil in American Christianity
A confluence of events is proving just how dead and unchristian most of American Christianity is today. There are exceptions, most notably the Catholic Church. If you can overlook its rampant misogyny...
View ArticleEvangelicals rooting for Armageddon
On April 29, I inconveniently pointed out that most Christians in America are acting like the devil. Jesus himself seemed to be aware that people have this tendency, which is captured in the Bible in...
View ArticleReligion is failing us
We just finished Season 2 of NBC’s series The Good Place, which we are watching on Netflix. It’s a comedy of sorts on the afterlife, more specifically on our views of the afterlife. In this version,...
View ArticleLessons from Book of Mormon (the musical)
We visited New York City last week, our first trip there since probably 2003. You rarely go there and not see a Broadway show. We saw two: Come from Away, a heartwarming musical about how a community...
View ArticleChristianity Today
From the perspective of this non-Christian, Christianity today is a mess. The magazine Christianity Today hinted as much with its December 19th editorial calling for Donald Trump to be removed from...
View ArticleGod won’t save you from COVID-19, but science might
Everyone’s feeling out of kilter these days. Most of us are feeling somewhat scared too. It’s reasonable to expect that in the weeks ahead we will feel more scared, as the COVID-19 crisis gets much,...
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