On October 18, I gave an address to the Northern Virginia Ethical Society on the subject of the New Atheism and the divides within the atheist...
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In a speech delivered earlier this week at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, former British prime minister Tony Blair cast atheists and violent...
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In the 1930s, a cross went up in the Mojave National Preserve to honor war dead. About 10 years ago, a guy named Frank Buono thought it was a bad...
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Secularist think tank the Center for Inquiry held an art exhibit to commemorate International Blasphemy Day this evening at its DC branch office,...
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The Los Angeles Times editorial page comes down, somewhat half-heartedly, on the side of the separation of church and state. Treading warily into the...
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There is a lot of highly-justified agitation over the engraving of the "In God We Trust" motto and the religious modern version of the...
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Amid the awe-inducing sights and reports of protest and uprising among Iran's citizens, it is difficult to feel feel truly hopeful. For though there...
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On the same day, even within minutes of each other, the Politico posted two articles sporting these headlines. The first: Barack Obama invokes Jesus...
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There was quite a bit of chatter following the front page New York Times story on atheist activism by Lisa Goodstein last week (noted by yours truly)....
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