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I Believe in You, Rocky

Let’s engage for a moment in what is sure to seem like a hopelessly pedantic exercise. What does a person mean when he or she says, “I believe in god”? Might not be an affirmation of confidence in...

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Paradiddling All Over Religion

I don’t have anything against atheists.  Atheism makes perfect sense to me.  Really.  Half the time, I am an atheist.  There’s no empirical evidence for a super-being god, so we may as well believe in...

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The Death of Humanism in Our Religionless Future

Physicist Lawrence Krauss apparently suggested this past week that religion could disappear in a single generation if we were to plant doubt effectively in the world’s children. As happened with...

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Archimedes’ Divine Lever

Archimedes is reported to have said, lo, these more-than-two-millennia ago, that if he were given a sufficiently long lever, he, personally, could move the earth. Now, according to some enterprising...

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If God Does Not Die

Nietzsche, famously or infamously towards the end of the nineteenth century, declared the death of god.  All of us pushing the twenty-first century forward can roll our eyes and concede that Nietzsche...

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A Dis-Christian Nativity

Taxation, some say, started it all. Or a census. Augustus, some say, decreed an accounting. Some say he didn’t. Some say he did, but not before Herod, so something in the start of the story is screwy,...

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The Most Religious Song in the Songbook

Name the most genuinely religious song in the songbook that the LDS church has approved for the Sunday spirituality of children. For outsiders, the LDS church (often mis-identified as the Mormon...

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Not a Christian Nation

There’s nothing happy about this year’s Presidential Dolt-Fest.  But one possibility that this electoral disgrace offers is that the Christian Right has tied itself so tightly to its Great Orange...

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