May 30, 1984. A spread of piercing green lasers sprayed 400 feet from behind the stage over my head and ...

Last night I had the privilege of speaking with particle physicist and New Atheist author Dr. Victor J. Stenger ...

[The human] moral sense licenses aggression against others as a way to prevent or punish immoral acts. That is fine ...

In the past, I've discussed how Easter has been co-opted and corrupted by Christianity from what had been a pagan ...

I've maintained that religion and spirituality are inversely correlated with high-functioning intelligence.  (previous article, Religion Rots Your Brain And ...

Once in a while you strike Facebook gold. The kinds of discussions I used to have here on BSJ ...

Last night I watched CNN coverage of a shaken Kurt Westergaard, after he survived an attempt on his ...

Can't get through the season without saying something about the annual "War on Christmas," that perverse ritual when Bill O'Reilly, Bill Donohue and the whole gang of U.S. cultural conservatives ...

Editorials slamming "new atheism" as "strident," "tedious," "uninformed," or the kicker, "fundamentalist" crop up every week like new mushrooms sprouting ...

In the grand scheme of American politics, the gay marriage issue seems like it should really be a footnote. It ...

Apparently emboldened by the success of Prop. 8, it seems California religious nutters are now gathering signatures to put an initiative to ban divorce on the ballot in 2010. I still can't ...

Marketing as Seduction We assume marketing relies on a certain amount of hype, and consumers willing to suspend their disbelief. But ...

My wife just mentioned a term I hadn't heard before: Glurge. But I've certainly experienced it. Now you can, too...   You're welcome. The image below is exactly how this ...

Continued from Part 2 From campaign speeches to tent revivals to late-night talk radio, countless orators throughout human history have influenced, cajoled, inspired, and galvanized the ...

Religion has never needed much prodding to demonstrate its hypocrisy. It's almost a weekly perp-walk of the clergy across the world stage with their sexual indiscretions. Then there's the lying ...

Wow, I shouldn't be surprised any more, but I always am. It seems the new-agers take the same apologetics used by religion, then add on top their notions of universal ...

The imagination is the mind's active scratch pad--our source of daydreams. Here we try out new ideas, we work out conflicts, ...

The Church of Atheism By DHRUV K. SINGHAL Its standard-bearers swarm across oceans and mountains, propagating a vitriolic doctrine of bigotry and intolerance ...

Sex invariably spells trouble, says Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader, on Friday said sex spelt fleeting satisfaction and trouble later, while ...

The above tagline (without the single quotes, of course) used to be one of the ways Elizabeth Clare Prophet was billed when appearing on ...

More revisionist propaganda from CUT leaders in a new AP article: In March 1990, thousands of church members who had descended on the Yellowstone area entered the shelters to ...

Every time I reflect back on the absurdities I used to believe as a minister of The Summit Lighthouse and Church Universal & Triumphant ...

Controversial 'Imagine No Religion' billboard removed in Rancho Cucamonga A billboard with the message "Imagine No Religion" is no more. Sign company General Outdoor removed the sign by ...

I love the energy at this anti-Prop. 8 protest in San Diego. This bad law is SO getting tossed. You can't write discrimination into the state constitution without a supermajority ...

What other institution could get away with this? OAKLAND, California (CNN) -- Terrie Light stands outside Oakland's stunning new modern cathedral in a first-of-its-kind garden that honors victims ...