The One With Aldacron

Nearly four short years ago, on October 24th, 2006, I wrote the following in a post titled, My Religious Evolution and the Atheist Revolution. I have always entertained the possiblity that one or more supreme beings exist, much as I have believed that the existence of extra-terrestrials is possible. But my tolerance of religion has [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Julian Baggini wrote a commentary titled The New Atheist Movement is destructive. An atheist himself, he blasts the Four Horsemen of the New Atheist movement (Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennet, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris) for doing more harm than good in their attacks on religion. A paragraph that is exemplary [...]

If you’re looking to increase the number of your atheist blog subscriptions, a good place to start is this list from Challenge Religion. It’s a daily list of top atheist blogs. Two of the blogs I subscribe to are in the top 25. Many of the rest I’ve never heard of. One is conspicuously absent, [...]

The CEO of Coral Ridge Ministries sent an email to his flock, asking for money to mount a media campaign against atheism while also suggesting that they drown atheists. He painted a bleak picture of how atheists are attacking Christianity and trying to corrupt children before quoting this quaint passage from the “Good” book: Jesus [...]

One thing that pisses me off about the Christian faithful is their absurd insistence that Christians are kind, good people. It’s not a total lie, but it most certainly is no more than a half-truth for many of them (not all, of course). Christians are kind and good to other Christians. If they find out [...]

The past few days have not been pleasant. Saturday, I awoke to find my $600 cell phone lying submerged in my dogs’ water dish. Then I came down with a cold that had knocked me flat by Sunday evening. Monday was a bit better, but I did spend the time between my morning and evening [...]

Found this one over at Pharyngula — for the first time ever, a godless member of the United States Congress has admitted his lack of belief: Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), a senior member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Chair of the Health Subcommittee, and member of Congress since 1973, acknowledged his nontheism [...]