A Doubter in the Inquisitor’s Chair
"The soul?" she said. "Personally, I don't see anything come out of men or women when they die."
View ArticleInterrogation of Aude: “How is it possible that I cannot believe in our Lord!”
A 14th century French woman struggles with doubts in front of the Inquisitor.
View Article“How Was Christ made? I’m going to tell you…”
"Do you know how Christ was made? I’m going to tell you: Christ was made by fucking!" he said, striking one hand against the other.
View ArticleSanta Claus: The Ultimate Dry Run
Thinking their own way out of the Santa myth can prepare kids to think their way out of our culture's other big myth. By Dale McGowan.
View ArticleNo, Virginia…and the World is Still Wonderful
There is a crucial turning point in the Santa game, and Virginia had reached it. Then the editor betrayed her. By Dale McGowan.
View ArticleMyth-Taken by Santa
“Santa is a fake!” I said to my mother, scandalized. I thought about it for a moment, then continued, “And all those Santas, in all those malls, they’re all fake too!” It’s a memory that my mother and...
View ArticleMy Personal War on Christmas
It should be obvious by now from some of my previous posts that I had a rather, shall we say, mixed up secular childhood. In part, that was inevitable for a transplanted Yankee of Jewish heritage,...
View ArticleHiding Darwin’s Disbelief
Part 3 in a series on the mangling of Darwin’s Autobiography Back to Part 1 | Part 2 I majored in physical anthropology in college — not for the dazzling job prospects, but to fill in my sketchy...
View ArticleBorn Free (of God)
I have to admit that I feel a bit embarrassed when it comes to my atheism. No, it’s not due to my heresy. After all, the Washington Post called me, “Funny, profane and adamantly atheist.” I want that...
View ArticleWhen Saints Go Missing, Do They Make a Sound?
The details of the 4th century life of St. Catherine of Alexandria are painstakingly woven into the lore and song and symbolism of St. Catherine University, a Catholic college in Minnesota where I...
View ArticleUnnatural Selection
After the publication of On the Origin of Species, religious naturalists found themselves in a pickle. The tide of scientific thought had turned heavily toward evolution, with its wealth of compelling...
View ArticleHoly Moses?
Passover will pass over on Saturday…and I couldn’t care less. So what, you may say, neither could I. But Judaism is the religion I don’t practice. And since I was raised by an agnostic mother who felt...
View ArticleWhich Came First, the Science or the Atheism?
I used to joke that the chicken or the egg riddle was actually an evolution vs. creationism debate (though I’m not the first to come up with this idea). For evolutionists, the egg came first, since any...
View ArticleHow To Be Perfect!
(image credit)By guest blogger Hunter Glenn ______________________________________________________________________ Once, alchemists sought the secret formula for turning lead into gold. Nowadays, we...
View ArticleFreedom’s Path Series: Emotional Hardships of Deconversion
“You doing okay, Pat?” The question was asked by Buzz, one of my regular passengers when I was a taxi driver (the job I took after I left the ministry because it was all I could find). Buzz was a...
View ArticleFreedom’s Path Series: Tales TRUMP Trust
This has nothing to do with President Trump. I just needed to use the word. This week, it seems to be the only way to get noticed online and I want this to be read. The title does, however, reflect the...
View ArticleCircumcision re-enters genital-mutilation debate
During the decades I lived in Saudi Arabia, I eventually stopped noticing the dense black veils that hid the faces of local Muslim women. It was just the way it was, like the endless sandy sabkha (salt...
View ArticleYasir Qadhi’s Elitist Ruse to Conceal the Obscure Origins of the Qur’an
In college a friend at the time once told me that she had been invited to Islam by a mutual friend of ours, a religious man who sincerely believed that Islam was the way. She expressed various...
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