It appears to me that our non-religious organizations are sort of spinning their wheels on this important issue of separation of church and state (one of the highest priorities for many of such organizations), precisely because a significant majority of our citizens still cling to their ancient religious beliefs. Thus, it would seem to be important to use some of our resources to more directly confront the lack of credible evidence in support of such beliefs. The attached article is offered…

I currently teach in Japan. The schools here focus almost entirely on preparing students for tests at specific waypoints in their education. There are tests at every level. Even some kindergartens require prospective students to take an entrance exam. But there is very little focus on developing critical thinking skills. Upon graduating high school, students can perform calculations at lightning speed and recall scientific facts and mathematical formulae…

As a kid from Indiana, I always heard it said, don’t go to Gary or South Chicago–dangerous black man territory. So while I had never had any contact with a black person, and my parents weren’t biased that I was aware of (well, maybe my father was), I knew to fear and avoid them.

One summer Sunday day back in 1957 when I was 14, my friend’s father took us by train to Chicago to see the White Sox play. We mistakenly got off at the wrong station and discovered we were in “black Chicago”…

I don’t have the luxury of hating Islamist radicals, or any religious extremist. I have tried to summoned the courage but couldn’t, instead all I have for them is a pity, for they are being deluded with a virus of religion. They are as much a victim, from the same malignant tumor of Islam as all its other obvious victims that it has so much openly destroyed.

When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there, but it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.

— Comrade Valery Legasov, commenting on the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant



Back in January of 2017, I wrote a blog regarding what I called…

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First let it be said that Kevin Kruse has done a masterful job with One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, of researching and detailing those events which began and accelerated the process of both bringing Christianity more fully into American life while simultaneously politicizing it toward the Republican side of the ledger. We get reminded of well-known names, such as Billy Graham and Herbert Hoover and even Dwight D. Eisenhower, as well as learning…

I have been missing from this community for quite some time. I had a stroke in April 2011 and was focused on bettering myself for many years. My kids were 3yrs old and 15 months old when it happened. I went seven weeks with only seeing them once. When I got home, I still had much work to do. I am just starting to feel “normal” which is really a new normal because I will never feel my old normal again. I am nine years post stroke and I still get nauseated if I over do it, I still get dizzy…

Believers have their Bibles, Torahs, Korans etc. Shouldn’t us atheists have our own bible too? So that we are not defined negatively in terms of what we don’t believe (i.e. we don’t believe in the supernatural, gods or God, miracles, an afterlife etc) but a statement that defines positively what many of us do believe?

I am an atheist and independent thinker in New Jersey. My recently finished book A bible for atheists tries to do exactly that:…

I wrote the following about three weeks ago, just before the “shelter-in-place” order for Ohio came down. For those of you who are looking for some appropriate binge-watching material, I would like to offer this:



You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it. I designed The Machine to detect acts of terror but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people, people like…

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine just took the COVID-19 debacle out of bounds last night, announcing that, because of the current “health emergency,” the polls would not be open today and the Ohio primary would be postponed until June 2nd. His action was allegedly in response to a lawsuit from two elderly Franklin County voters who feared exposure to Coronavirus in the public voting place.



This action was immediately challenged. Per reporting in today’s (March 17, 2020) Plain…

Reminder the Apostle Muhammad revealed Tabernacle of Allah location & Reminder the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas is its Eternal Home.

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When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits — despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall…

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“I have delved deep into Oriental antiquities and also into those of Greece and Rome. I have devoured the works of theologians, philosophers, physicists, geologists, and naturalists. I have learnt. I have thought. I have lost my faith.” – RotA

Arcade is many things. As Arcadia,…

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Today is the official book release date for How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy by Penguin Random House (…

Entropy (n) lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.



A Never-Ending Battle



Canaries, Coal Mines…



Believing is easy. Knowing is hard.



“Coasting” “The bill doesn’t come due until after we’re dead” … so why care?



“Eternal vigilance…”



I was reflecting the other day on a couple of my more recent blog posts and what they had in common. Looking at issues like climate change, social justice, LGBTQ rights and…

We have all seen those people who obstinately deny pejorative effects of air pollution , polluted water, polluted soil in farming, toxic company.

Many think it’s partisan politics. But I think it’s evolution.