The Pledge of Allegiance is the most anti-American thing we Americans can do and I have already stated my opposition to the pledge here, here, here and …

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One of the great assets that religion has is its promise of everlasting life after death. Whether it is an eternity in hell or heaven, reincarnation, our lives (for the price of belief and submission to a system of subsequent beliefs) can be continued after death.



Notice, however, that everlasting life is granted only after you are dead.



Religion does not give you everlasting life, immortality, when you are still living.



If religion really had the power… Continue

A few years back, three older women came to my door to preach the gospel to me. I lived in a neighborhood of Milwaukee that had several churches just blocks away. One close-by church was Catholic and one was Lutheran, and there were several other Protestant denominations nearby too.



I went to the door and the oldest of the three ladies invited me to their church as she attempted to hand me something.



Not wanting to waste too much time with these people, who came uninvited… Continue

Sarah Palin's flubs about history are well known. Her gaffe about Paul Revere is one of them, and her bus graphic, (on her much publicized bus tour) is just the latest example.…



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In sunday school, I was taught that God had given humanity a handful of non-negotiable laws that must be obeyed. These laws were the Ten Commandments, of course. In my adolescence, I had believe these ten laws were reasonable and if the adults in my life had insisted I follow them uncritically, I quite naturally did so without question. Incidentally, this is the exactly the type of faith that is often encouraged today -- the faith of a child -- obedience without question. We were praised for… Continue