It seems kind of trite, but this was the first 'challenge' to my faith when I was a child. An older kid asked me if I thought god could do ...

I just found out I've been getting a lot of traffic from the 52nd weekly "Carnival of the Godless" over at SkepticRant. This is the Halloween issue. I heard ...

So I had a little time while I was packing. I guiltily grabbed my headphones to listen to the prohibited music, all in the name of research, of course ;-) ...

Two disturbing stories from the last 24 hours. Both the result of religious extremism. The first, a new law outlawing all abortions in Nicaragua, even when the mother's life is ...

The one 'ace in the hole' religions have is their continued success at keeping the discussion off the table. The notion of "respect" for beliefs, no matter how absurd, is ...

Announcer: You have a very special purpose in life. You've been chosen. The Island awaits you. ________________ Clone: "Who's God?" Steve Buscemi: "When you close your eyes, and you wish really, really hard ...

In the weeks before her death, Wilkins had become obsessed with the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. She had also stopped grooming herself, and had begun taking ...

Jeffrey Lundgren used the bible to justify slaughtering a family of five in a pit in 1989. Now he is trying to ...

Thanks to Goose for this one!

This image here of followers of communist thug Kim Jong Il demonstrates what I have said all along: The personality cults of dictators are state religions. Case closed. These people ...

A friend sent me this song, by a band called OSI, a Dream Theater side project. The group sampled a recording made by my mom Elizabeth Clare Prophet, in which ...

It's an exciting time. What's key to the success of these endeavors is the feedback mechanism. Humans are finally waking up to the fact that while popularity is no ...

A brilliant post by Alan Perlman at American Chronicle.

Aaron Kinney of Kill the Afterlife started a very worthy discussion on his blog, with a link to this article, in which Militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khameini has been taking online questions about Ramadan on his website. Let's put aside for a minute the absurdity and health risks of fasting (without ...

MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: Militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir sees erotic shows on TV as "more dangerous than the Bali bombs". Ba'asyir, who was released from ...

"We think it was God's plan and we're going to have to pick up the pieces and keep going," "A funeral to us is a much more important thing than ...

To those who say matter and physical life has no meaning and does not inspire awe: Watch this video of human cellular processes in action. The wonder of life is ...

Arnold signed a bill making it illegal in California to hold your cell-phone while talking. (But you can still play with your ipod, tune the radio, eat, look at ...

I've been tagged by olly over at 10,000 Reasons to Doubt the Fish. So here is my book list: 1. A book that changed your lifeThere were two, ...