What's Wrong With Christianity?

Happy "Love 'Murica er Git Out" Day! I am taking advantage of the computer access I have today to exercise my God-given (alleg...

The Power of Faith

Whether faith is a legitimate tool for understanding the divine or an excuse to believe whatever one wants and justify all sorts of heinous ...

Why Do You Hate Religion?

I get asked this question every once in a while. I usually respond by saying, "I don't hate religion. I just think people need to l...

The Road to Enlightenment

I used to think I was "enlightened," but now I know I'm not enlightened at all... Paradoxically, that realization might just b...

My Personal Motto

The Dawkins' Scale

Where do you fall on this scale?

Open Letter to Believers Who Think Non-Believers Are Going To Hell

[I wrote this a couple days before I wrote The Path of a Critical Thinker (part five) . This open letter prompted me to write that entry.] T...

The Tale of The Witch-Killing Preacher

If you've been following this blog for a while, you probably know that I'm twice-divorced, and have three kids with my first wife (a...

A Magical Definition of Faith

Magic: the Gathering is a competitive trading card game with a fantasy theme: magic, wizards, angels, vampires, dragons, knights, zombies, ...

Sam Harris on Faith

I admit it's taken a while, but Sam Harris is starting to grow on me... Still, Sam can be kinda goofy sometimes . I miss Hitch.

One Reason Why Religion Persists...

... in my not-all-that-humble opinion: Dead-Logic.com

The True Meaning of Faith

I've decided that this will be my last entry in The Clayton Series . I'm doing this installment differently. I will be commenting th...

The Meaning of Religion

I have read Clayton's essay, "Why Am I A Christian?" three times all the way through. There are some things in it with which ...

The "Love Jesus/Hate Religion" Guy

As of this writing, Jefferson Bethke , aka "bball1989" on YouTube, aka "The Love Jesus/Hate Religion" Guy, has received ...

The Nevermore Experiment

My journey into this brave new world called the Internet began in late 1998. I had finally acquired a computer capable of Internet access, i...

Sneaky Christian Guy is Sneaky

So I got this message on my blog this evening: This guy - let's call him "Sneaky Christian Guy" - thought it was necessary to ...

I Gets Comments

Naturally, in a world where the majority of people still think faith is a good thing, I knew not everyone would appreciate my rendition of ...

Why I Gave Up On Faith

A visitor to my blog asked me "what didn't make sense" about Christianity/theism that caused me to walk away from it. The answ...

Faith is "Swimming Upstream"

This is one video in a series of three that I created over a year ago, back when I had thoughts of making YouTube videos regularly (before I...

Quotes Make Great Status Updates

Seems that, completely unintentionally, my return to blogging has been marked by posts featuring interesting stuff I've seen lately on F...