Reading Time: 7 minutes After learning from a piece penned for OnlySky a while back by Hemant Mehta that Donohue is paid $1-million a year to shield the Catholic Church from all forms of criticism, I decided to trawl through his Catholic League posts to ascertain what he does to justify his outrageous salary, and found this breathtaking bit […]
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10 secular alternatives to “Oh My God” during sex
Reading Time: < 1 minute My personal go-to when replacing the word “God” is Lemmy. As in the rock god Lemmy Kilmister. Like when someone sneezes I might say, “Lemmy blesses you.” Or “Lemmy help me, my boss is an idiot.” But saying “Oh my Lemmy,” during sex, particularly if the person’s name doesn’t happen to be Lemmy, could be […]
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A very brief history of atheism
Reading Time: 5 minutes Where should we start a history of atheism? Shall we start at the cooling of the Earth’s core a few billion years ago? Earlier? Shall we begin at the Big Bang? The point here is that it takes humans to believe or disbelieve in Gods, and billions of years passed before any humans appeared on […]
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I’m an atheist. Merry Christmas to you!
Reading Time: 4 minutes I love holidays, and Christmas is no exception. Do I believe in Jesus such that I will be celebrating his birth over that time? No. Not at all. I’m an atheist. I’ve even written a book to illustrate that the whole thing really was a mythological tale. In this context, I want to explain how […]
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Atheists, agnostics and humanists much more likely than Christians to get COVID-19 vaccine
Reading Time: 2 minutes Although on the one hand we nonreligious types don’t like to do what we’re told by a skydaddy god that we’ve made up ourselves in our gullible past, on the other hand, we do like to believe what we’re told by experts in the know who have used evidence and rationality to substantiate their conclusions. […]
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It’s Not Just Young White Liberals Who Are Leaving Religion
Reading Time: 4 minutes I am fairly addicted to FiveThirtyEight, even though I am a Brit, although I’ve more recently been watching their podcasts and videos on YouTube. That said, a recent piece was particularly interesting: “It’s Not Just Young White Liberals Who Are Leaving Religion“. It starts: Only 47 percent of American adults said they were members of […]
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Assessing the Claim that “Christians Are the Most Persecuted Group”
Reading Time: 14 minutes I was involved in an argument on Facebook concerning the news of the cathedral in the Frensch city of Nantes. This was fresh news: it was only just happening. And yet, already, the person in question wrote this comment alongside a video of the burning building: There are people who hate the truth, hate the […]
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Seamus From The Free Thought Prophet On DAM
Reading Time: < 1 minute What is DAM? Good question. DAM is the Daily Atheist Morning Show. It’s hosted by Chris Mallard. On Tuesdays, I (Andy Hall, BTW) jump on as cohost. Our guest today was Seamus from the Free Thought Prophet. We had a lot of fun chatting. I may or may not have compared washing my hands to […]
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Episode 29: What Atheists Wish Christians Knew About Them
Reading Time: 11 minutes I kept my deconversion a secret for nearly four years, but after being “outed” against my will I decided to go ahead and own it. Soon after, I began thinking about starting a blog to unpack my thoughts about faith and skepticism out loud for the benefit of others, and that’s when I read on […]
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Texas Atheist Group Finds Heartwarming Way to Help the Homeless
Reading Time: 3 minutes Since God won’t help, these atheists stepped in.