Feb 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Sin Nombre, Pintura de Luis Vargas de Santa Cruz, I wrote what I thought was a great blog, based on something I published twelve years ago. And at the last minute, to bolster my case, I thought I’d throw in a few scientific facts, well-researched data that would...
Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (at an event) and Bernie Sanders (meeting Barack Obama at the White House. Public Domain. A fellow blogger, Caren White, has written a disturbing piece of discriminatory rationalization. It’s ageism at its worst, but really, she was...
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...
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