Fan Mail (stickers): The Tip of the Iceberg!
I get fan mail (sort of) every now and then and it looks like this: The one on the right is from a few months ago, and the new one Continue Reading →
Tag Archives: New Enlightenment
Krauss on the Offensive, not militant, but adamant.
Lawrence Krauss, never one to pull punches, is on the offensive. In this pointed speech at the recent NonCon Conference, in Kitchener (just outside Toronto), Ontario, Canada (The Great White Continue Reading →
Islam: So many speaking out!
Dom the Conservative. I would normally be more than a little bit skeptical of what a self-admitted Conservative Xian might say about another religion. But I watched the above video Continue Reading →
Michael Shermer on the Influence of Science
Michael Shermer, Psychologist, Historian of Science and founder of Skeptic magazine. “All of us are Children of the Enlightenment.” A great line, which Shermer uses often, to describe the huge Continue Reading →
TED turns…disses religion, showcases normal human empathy once again.
Casey Gerald. Once a Baptist, a 12 year-old “duped, hoodwinked, bamboozled,” into awaiting the end-times of Revelation as modernized by Tim Lahaye in the company of his equally hosed elders Continue Reading →
The Tip of the Iceberg…there’s more closet secularists than you think.
“I’d say it only took me a couple weeks to fully realize that I had been bamboozled in my youth and beyond” The more I read of what’s happening with Continue Reading →
Religion: Not impossible to dump, but not easy.
Elizabeth King, a budding young Chicago writer, has an interesting plaint in the Washington Post describing how tough it can be to shake off the indoctrination of religion in I’m Continue Reading →
The Illinois Report podcast: A Secular View from the Heartland
A new secular podcast is on the “airwaves” of the internet, The Illinois Report, hosted by a father and son team, John and Combo. It is a fast-paced entertaining 1/2 Continue Reading →
Why I Write: Annie Laurie Gaylor on Women and Religion
Annie Laurie Gaylor, Co-President of the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF). Annie Laurie along with her husband Dan Barker is at the forefront of the movement to remove religion from Continue Reading →
Thomas Jefferson: Islamophobe, just like Sam Harris?
Thomas Jefferson. When he and John Adams met with the ambassador of the Barbary Coast (today’s Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia) in 1785 to inquire as to why this Muslim Continue Reading →