Dan Courtney

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Sye Ten Bruggencate has come on the scene of Christian apologetics over the last couple years as the latest to use Presuppositionalism to defend his faith. Sye’s Presuppositional arguments consist mainly of asserting that everyone knows there...

AU victory in Greece, NY council prayer lawsuit

Americans United for Separation of Church and State has issued a press release announcing the unanimous verdict in a suit it brought on behalf of Greece residents Linda Stephens and Susan Galloway. The press release said, in part: When...

Military courtesy

Recently, upon boarding a flight from Orlando to Charlotte I found my seat occupied by a young lady. The young man sitting next to her informed me that they were military personnel, but that the airline had messed up their...

Ex-Mormon shares experience with local Freethinkers

Les Bowen of Mt. Morris, NY is one of six children that were raised Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) near Salt Lake City, UT. After spending nearly two years on mission for the church in southern...

Pawns for Profit

I travel quite a bit, and I frequently see soldiers in uniform transiting the airport or occasionally on the same flight with me. Over the last ten years or so I’ve begun to reconsider my support for the...

On the Impotence of the Omnipotent

I am the President of the Freethinkers of Upstate New York (FUNY), and at our recent meeting a member shared a poem with the group. I think it captures both the incredulity and the hope felt by the growing number...

Atheist tide rises on the national mall

The Reason Rally, billed as the largest gathering of non-believers in world history, lived up to its billing this past Saturday. Atheists, Freethinkers, Secularists, Humanists…whatever the label, they are notoriously independent. Getting these independent thinkers together in...

Return of the dark ages

My brother and I participated in a recent debate with two fundamentalist Christians. Early on in the debate I pointed out that the concept that Jesus was 100% god and 100% human was a logical contradiction. To my astonishment, instead...

Clash of views at Rochester church

On Sunday February 26th the Bridge Community Church in Irondequoit hosted a panel discussion on the veracity of Christianity. About 25 audience members, roughly half church members, and half from a local atheist group, gathered at the small church on...

Catholic position on birth control is harmful

You may have been watching with interest the struggle between religious conservatives and women’s health advocates over the planned rule that would give women working at religiously owned organizations the option of birth control as part of their...

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How do you know?

AU victory in Greece, NY council prayer lawsuit

Military courtesy

Ex-Mormon shares experience with local Freethinkers

Pawns for Profit

On the Impotence of the Omnipotent

Atheist tide rises on the national mall

Return of the dark ages

Clash of views at Rochester church

Catholic position on birth control is harmful

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