Feb 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Moses Receives the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, painter unknown. Courtesy Nationalmuseum. (Colors enhanced by the author.) Religious leaders love to smugly claim moral superiority over us lowly atheists and humanists. Only God, they say, can possibly know right...
Feb 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
From THE DRAMA, ITS HISTORY, LITERATURE AND INFLUENCE ON CIVILIZATION, 1903 Where do morals come from? Theists love to claim that morality comes from God. Actually it’s worse than that: they claim that morality can only come from God, and that without religion,...
Jan 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Dear Pope Francis: If you’re going to be an asshole, own it. Don’t beat around the bush, and don’t try to spray air freshener on it. Have the courage of your convictions and just be an asshole. Last week Pope Francis made headlines by declaring that...
Jan 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Se acabó el hogar — home is over (public domain) There’s a Southern Baptist movement to “get tough on divorce” that sounds laudable on the surface. Divorce is hard on everyone, especially the children. If there’s a path to reconciliation...
Jan 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
See attribution below. Christianity is facing an existential threat, the biggest in its two-thousand-year history. It could well destroy the core tenets of the faith, perhaps even Christianity itself. Can Christianity survive this threat? Perhaps, but if so, it will...
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