Atheists are More Moral than Theists: Part 2
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...
Atheists are More Moral than Theists: Part 1
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, the...
Pope’s Hypocritial New “Support” of Gays
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 "Being homosexual...