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Gregory Paul: Is religion hurting America?
Autodidact paleontologist and self professed critic of religion Gregory Paul is back in the news again.   His 2005 paper correlating secularity and societal health was criticized severely in some circles, primarily for statistical reasons.  In an effort to shore up his data and refine his conclusions, Paul has published a new set of conclusions [...]

Thanksgiving
I’ve spent a lot of time contemplating holidays since leaving religion.  It’s been more traumatic than you might think.  Easter was the only easy one.  I no longer celebrate Easter because it’s pretty much completely identified as a Christian holiday celebrating how Jesus dripped multicolored blood on eggs and turned his cross into chocolate bunnies [...]

Terrorists Among Us
Think Christians aren’t like Muslims?  Think again. An atheist billboard in Cincinnati has been relocated after the landowner received “significant threats” demanding its removal. “Everything that has happened shows just how vital our message is,” said Shawn Jeffers, co-coordinator for the Cincinnati Coalition of Reason. “It proves our point, that bigotry against people who don’t believe in [...]

Doubt vs Doubt
I love discovering new conflations.   Or rather, I love discovering that there’s a conflation being bandied about that I hadn’t noticed before.  You see, I believe that a substantial number of disagreements, misunderstandings, and in general, a lot of the problems in the world, are caused by conflations.  There are two common ways in [...]

Greta Christina — Top One Reason Religion is Harmful
I know I’ve directed your attention towards this argument before, but I honestly believe it is the coup de grâce in the debate over whether or not faith based belief is inherently beneficial or harmful.  Before I go on any further, I need to make my standard disclaimer.  In deference to Greta’s post, I used [...]