James A. Haught [This article was first published in 1990. For that reason, neither the ongoing carnage in the middle east nor terrorist attacks in the past 25+ years are mentioned.] Ronald Reagan often called religion the world’s mightiest force for good, “the bedrock of moral order.” George Bush said…
While I like some of what Richard Carrier has written, I have to say I am a little disturbed by his attempts to use Bayes Theorem with history. R. Joseph Hoffmann has a nice synopsis of the issues with Carrier’s logic, or the lack of it, here.
For the first time, atheists and other nonreligious persons are explicitly named as a class protected by the law. President Barack Obama has signed into law the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act. The new law protects atheists, humanists, and other freethinkers around the world from religious persecution. Congress passed the…
If you have come here for the religions conflict sticker you have come to the right place. Yes, the design is in in protest of the ubiquitous “coexist” iteration of various religious symbols. While we might be able to coexist, cults and religions come into being because they occupy…
by Bernard Leikind Adam’s IQ was 1500! How do I know? I read it in a pamphlet I found at the Institute for Creation Science. Why does Adam’s IQ concern creationists? Because Adam named all of the animals. Leave aside the interesting question of how the duckbilled platypus got from…
This pattern is based upon The Hero: A study in Tradition, Myth and Dreams by Lord Raglan First identified by Otto Rank in 1914 and elaborated by Lord Fitzroy Raglan in 1936. Otto Rank’s basic model for mythic heroes can be summarized is 6 steps: Prophecy surrounds birth Divine, aristocratic,…
