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The Righteous Gemstones is amazing.

I don’t know if this has been mentioned before, but the Righteous Gemstones is absolutely brilliant. It highlights the lunacy of religion the greediness of megachurches and just the weirdness of it all. Danny McBride stars in it and it[…]

Religious friends can be really shitty if you're ever feeling down

If you have a religious friend, especially from a religion that pushes extra hard to convert people (evangelical, Mormon, some types of Muslim, etc) It really sucks how if you are ever feeling really down or mention to them that[…]

The Republican Party hates science and logic. I know that you know this already, I'm not suggesting this like it's a new thing you're unaware of, I'm asking for some space to vent my frustration and breathe.

We're all big on science, facts, and humanity here, right? We all understand that we respect each other as human beings, correct? That's the main law we all recognize. But WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH CONSERVATIVES?!? KEE-RIST, you just[…]

The myth of Mother Teresa

Apparently I dropped a bit of a clanger for bringing this up at Christmas. How do people not know this already? https://youtu.be/NJG-lgmPvYA Then there is the question of why Ghislaine Maxwell's dad made a catholic nun a star through his[…]

Anti-science Governors drink anti-vax Kool-Aid: These 6 Governors have seemingly made it their mission in the name of religious freedom to do their damndest to spread the virus in the midst of our nation’s greatest Covid-19 spike yet. It appears that the inmates are running the asylum.

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One disproven theory does not prove your theory

I don't get why theists keep harping on evolution. Lets say that everything I know about evolution is wrong. Lets say I'm wrong about my belief that there was no fraud in elections. Lets say I'm wrong and the sky[…]

My school is forcing me and other non religious students to do Bible study now, help?

Just to be clear I'm not in the USA, I'm in South Africa and it's a private school. I now know that there isn't much I can do with legal matters I'm in a very small school (40 students total,Highschool[…]

Insensitive Jerks: Gorsuch v. secularism and health; escaping QAnon; insufficiently-Christian Crenshaw

Good morning once again. It’s time to catch up with the news that matters to the secular-skeptic-reality-based community with today’s Morning Heresy (and you can catch up with a whole ton of stuff with yesterday’s Heresy Now! podcast!) Quick housekeeping[…]

Why do religious people threaten non-religious people with eternal damnation but get offended when their own beliefs are criticised?

Even though I know a hell doesn't exist I still get pissed when Christians threaten me with burning forever and I am sure many here can relate. However, upon the slightest criticism, Christians tend to start raving about how I[…]

Am I wrong for immediately losing interest in a guy because he believes in tarot cards?

I don't know where else to post this. I am 100% secular. I don't believe in God, fairies Santa, the after life, ghosts etc etc. And certainly not horoscopes or astrology or any kind of psychic thing. I've been talking[…]

Start asking religious people who "trust in god if they get covid" why they don't "trust in god if their diabetes gets out of control"?

I have had it, as in totally 100% had it with these religious nuts who think that they are safe from COVID, even if they get it, because "if it's my time to go, it's my time to go -[…]

Paul Offit on the Risky History of Medical Innovation: Jan. 20 on Skeptical Inquirer Presents

Every choice we make involves some measure of risk, particularly when it comes to our health. Whether it’s one person’s decision to have surgery or a massive scientific effort to address a global health crisis, every decision to act—or not[…]

104-year-old Body Double: wrangling the nones; a Christian insurrection; anti-vaxxers drink pee

Before we get to today’s roundup of news and links for the secular, skeptic, reality-based community, I owe you an apology. When I said I’d be taking last week off, I promised to return on January 17, forgetting that it[…]

Social Costs of Opting Out of Religious Traditions and Atheism

I found much I could relate to in Bill's recent post at Dispassionate Doubt: Five Reasons Why I Identify as Atheist. But it was his first reason that really got me thinking: "I had nothing to lose." You see, Bill[…]

The 2022 Debunking Christianity Challenge

In 2010 I started something I called The Debunking Christianity Challenge. I challenged believers to read one recommended book a month. At that time I only had two published books. You can see the other books I recommended that year[…]

Prevention is Key to Improving Resistance to Harmful Big Lies

The mainstream news media in the United States have been calling it the "big lie." That seems like an apt description for the blatantly false claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election; he didn't. The election wasn't stolen.[…]

Christianity: Three Strikes and You’re OUT

There is no recovery from FATAL Strike Three The church has done such a good job idealizing and promoting Jesus that its rank and file members aren’t even aware of strikes one and two. They don’t study and probe. They[…]

Secular Activists Cannot Allow Religious Parents to Steer Public Schools

Parents ought to have a voice in the education of their children. After all, parents are (or at least ought to be) sufficiently invested in their children as to care about what they are learning in school. And yet, having[…]

Where We Might Be Today If Trump Had Approached the Pandemic Differently

I recently found myself thinking about what a different place we might be in today if Donald Trump had taken a different approach to the COVID-19 pandemic in two key areas that would have still been consistent with his public[…]

Stop Claiming Your Religion Makes You a Better Person and Show Us

"I'm a Christian, and I believe..." I'm willing to listen to this sort of thing from time-to-time, but I'd like to make a suggestion. Instead of (repeatedly) telling us what you believe, show us what you believe by living it.[…]

Skeptical Inquirer: The Catastrophic Consequences of Motivated Reasoning

We are living through an age of unprecedented misinformation, but it is not because of a shortage of facts. Verifiably true, evidence-based information is freely available in extraordinary abundance. Nonetheless, it seems that even mountains of evidence are insufficient to[…]

The Dull Slog of Being Merely Accurate: SCOTUS and vaccine mandates; COVID testing scams; right-wing Christianity’s persecution complex; Betty White and the occult

Thank Zod it’s Friday. Before we get to today’s news roundup for you smart, reality-based folks, a quick housekeeping note: I’ll be off all of next week, so that means no Morning Heresy or episodes of the Heresy Now! podcast[…]

Jesus of Nazareth Missing in Action

Different views of Jesus in the New Testament Where did the gospels come from? Since these documents overflow with details about Jesus—his coming and goings, sayings, impressive miracles—it has been commonly assumed by the laity that they were written by[…]

My Interview with Freedom From Religion Foundation

Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Co-Presidents of the Freedom of Religion Foundation, interview me about my anthology God and Horrendous Suffering. Plus there's more to hear! We mark the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection by hearing FFRF attorney[…]

Christian Nationalism: A Clear and Present Danger

Today is the anniversary of the insurrection at the Capitol. Thousands of people marched there last January 6th to protest, as is their right. The Capitol Police had granted permits. Many of them also fought with police, broke into the[…]

God Blew it with Brains: the insurrection and Christian nationalism; explosive 5G misinfo; pope vs. puppies

Oh my. Big day, big day. One good reason, other reasons, not so much. So let’s get right to today’s news roundup with The Morning Heresy (and catch up with everything from yesterday with a quick listen to the Heresy[…]

Proportional Freakout: SETI and skepticism; 1 million new COVID cases; churches and Big Data; goldfish motorists

Things are really weird this week, am I right? Like, there’s something in the air. I mean, other than SARS-CoV–2. Ever-more bizarre things seem to keep happening; good, bad, and in-between. Like, later in his post, I’m going to be[…]

The Boiling Pot: secret codes of “Jeopardy!”; B.S. about Betty White; the Post touts alt-med; Canadians and their astrology

Hey, I know, let’s have a Tuesday, and round up some news for reality-based folks with The Morning Heresy. You down? Cool. (For a quick catch-up, if you need it, here’s yesterday’s Heresy Now! podcast.) Here’s today’s Heresy Now! How[…]

Do You Believe That My Preferred God Does Not Exist?

When a religious believer asks an atheist, "Do you believe that God does not exist?" it is imperative that we pause for a moment to clarify something: Which god? Are we being asked whether we believe some particular god does[…]

Heresy Compounded by Lunacy: Teaching how to think; TikTok moral panics; why astrology is dumb; Earth isn’t a doughnut

How’s your new year so far? I know, I know, we have to start a whole new trip around the Sun without Betty White, and that just seems wrong. The best I can do is offer yet one more roundup[…]

Looking Ahead to 2022: A Return to Normal or a New Normal?

It is not unusual for our perceptions of events to change over time. At the beginning of 2021, I found myself hoping that 2021 would be better than 2020 but not feeling terribly optimistic that it would. And yet, those[…]

Interviews By Edouard Tahmizian and Other News.

Edouard Tahmizian is an Internet Infidel Board Member and he's in the process of interviewing lots of key players in our debates, including Keith Augustine, David Madison, David Fitzgerald, Michael J. Alter, Richard Carrier, Aron Ra, Dan Barker, Bob Seidensticker,[…]

New Year Resolutions for Christians

Would their faith survive? Let me share with you here a few of my fantasies about resolutions for 2022 that Christians could and should make. These have to do with religious practice itself, i.e., holding themselves accountable to some of[…]

Unwanted Chocolate: Motivated reasoning and Soviet wheat yields; bonkers end-of-year lists; obnoxious lunch prayers; Bigfoot nests

You see that light over the horizon? No, not the Sun, and I don’t know what time you’re reading this anyway. I’m being metaphorical. Anyway, you see that metaphorical light over the horizon? It’s a new year dawning. I forget[…]

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Year of the Incomprehensible: COVID cases break records; polls on pills and promises; Oz the contortionist; Harry Reid dies at 82

Welcome back to The Morning Heresy news roundup for the reality-based community. Have you checked out the new podcast variant, Heresy Now? You totally should. The end of a year always brings with it a slew of year-in-review pieces, and[…]

Read Atheist Revolution's Most Popular Posts of 2021

I cannot rule-out the possibility that I might someday look back on 2021 with fond memories. After all, things could get even worse in the not-too-distant future. Climate change isn't going away, and neither is the global COVID-19 pandemic. At[…]

Potential Disgrace Waiting in the Wings: new CDC isolation guidelines; five stages of angst; book-banning bounty hunters

We find ourselves once again in one of those weird periods between holidays, in which the news isn’t exactly bursting with major developments, and some of the weirder stuff bubbles up. Let us inhale the vapors together with today’s news[…]

Steven Pinker on Skeptical Inquirer Presents: Why Rationality Matters, Jan 6.

Humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding. It also appears to be losing its mind. Steven Pinker says that far from being cavemen out of time, doomed to impulse and unreason, rationality is part of who we are. On Thursday,[…]

Looking for a New Year's Resolution? Thank a Secular Activist

Everybody deserves some time off from the grind, and secular activists are no exception. And yet, I often find myself wondering why the national secular organizations in the United States often seem to be so much quieter this time of[…]

Will We Confront a Fundamental Lack of Empathy for Others?

Had I not already been up for a couple hours by the time it happened, I would have been more than a little annoyed with the neighbors who started their Jesus-centric fireworks celebration at exactly 6:30 am this morning. I[…]

Get Those Wise Men Out of the Stable!

The nativity stories don’t make any sense at all Tis the day before Christmas, so what better time to take a close look at the nativity stories? If only we could get faithful church-goers to do the same. They could[…]

The Final Twelfth Day of Solstice!

We're celebrating the 12 days of Solstice rather than the 12 days of Christmas, and we made it to the last day! I'm done writing and editing books, so I'm highlighting each one of them leading up to tomorrow the[…]

Day Eleven of the Twelve Days of Solstice

We're celebrating the 12 days of Solstice rather than the 12 days of Christmas. I'm done writing and editing books, so I'm highlighting each one of them leading up to the 25th of the month when we party. I'll tell[…]

Heretic on the Hill: O Come, All Ye Unfaithful

What is the atheist’s favorite Christmas movie? Coincidence on 34th Street. Thank you. I like to open with a joke, I just don’t usually have one. If you’re interested in a scholarly study on whether atheists and Christians have different[…]

Day Ten of the Twelve Days of Christmas

We're celebrating the 12 days of Solstice rather than the 12 days of Christmas. I'm done writing and editing books, so I'm highlighting each one of them leading up to the 25th of the month when we party. I'll tell[…]

Humanists Defend Boston’s Refusal to Fly Christian Flag at City Hall

Flags at city hall represent government speech – not private speech. The post Humanists Defend Boston’s Refusal to Fly Christian Flag at City Hall appeared first on American Humanist Association.

Happy Winter Solstice from SCA!

As the sun sets on the shortest day of the year, we look back on 2021, a year of progress but also challenge, and look forward to the new light bringing a wonderful 2022. We at the Secular Coalition for[…]

Humanists Celebrate 20th Anniversary of HumanLight

Join the AHA for this non-religious, end-of-year holiday! The post Humanists Celebrate 20th Anniversary of HumanLight appeared first on American Humanist Association.

Nigeria: Successive delays in proceedings against Mubarak Bala make a mockery of the Nigerian justice system

Yet another postponement in the case of Mubarak Bala The post Nigeria: Successive delays in proceedings against Mubarak Bala make a mockery of the Nigerian justice system appeared first on Humanists International.

Ho Ho Oh No It Ain't So

By Carl S ~ It's that time of year when people hear the story of a star traveling right above Earth, leading men to a structure, where it stops and hangs around for hours! ( Global Positioning Star, or Ancient[…]

It’s Moving Day for the Friendly Atheist Blog

I'm joining the team at OnlySky, and I hope you'll check out the new site.

Appeals Court: Taxpayer-Funded Seminary Can Expel Students in Same-Sex Marriages

Faith-based bigotry won this legal battle yet again.

Christian “Financial Guru” Dave Ramsey Sued for Religious Discrimination

Brad Amos says he was fired for not accepting Dave Ramsey's COVID-denial.

TN Pastor Announces AR-15 Giveaway During Upcoming Christmas Services

Nothing says "Jesus loves you" like a murder weapon.

Survey Says: A Record Number of Americans Have No Religious Affiliation

This massive shift away from organized religion has been taking place for years.

SCOTUS Rejects Religious Challenges to NY’s Vax Mandate for Healthcare Workers

Religious insanity should never be allowed to override public health concerns.

Everything Wrong With Exodus 32 in the Bible

It's time for Moses to finally walk back down the mountain to deliver God's Word to the Israelites... But somehow, this chapter is all about a Golden Calf, murder, a big oopsie, and more murder.

Everything Wrong With Exodus 31 in the Bible

It's a shorter chapter with fewer rules but more names. And definitely some threats. (Because, after all, this is God speaking.)

Here’s Why Secular Morality Is Better for the Country

Conservative Christian morality has led to needless deaths, creeping authoritarianism, and outright bigotry.

Catholic Diocese in Sicily Apologizes After Bishop Tells Kids Santa Isn’t Real

Who better to explain fact vs. fiction than a man who believes you can literally eat the body of Christ?

Heretic on the Hill: No tax-dollars for discrimination!

"On the Hill” generally refers to Congress but the Supreme Court is on that same hill, right across the street from the Capitol so I’m watching what happens there too. This week a lot happened in the separation of religion[…]

Visionary, Wisecracker, Memory Keeper: ‘Free Inquiry’ Honors the Memory of Editor Tom Flynn

He was a giant of secular humanism, a forward-thinking and radical visionary, as well as a devoted caretaker of freethought’s rich history. Free Inquiry magazine pays tribute to the man who helmed and nurtured the country’s premier humanist publication for over twenty[…]

“We must keep up the pressure,” says Leo Igwe on case of Mubarak Bala

Help us to keep up the pressure on Kano State. Donate to Mubarak Bala's legal fund. The post “We must keep up the pressure,” says Leo Igwe on case of Mubarak Bala appeared first on Humanists International.

American Humanist Association Announces New Executive Director

Nadya Dutchin announced as the organization's new Executive Director. The post American Humanist Association Announces New Executive Director appeared first on American Humanist Association.

Why Smart People Get Things Wrong: Skeptical Inquirer Presents, Dec. 9

Smart people sometimes believe dumb things. They may be highly educated, well-read, and quick-witted and yet still harbor some very wrong ideas. What’s going on here? On Thursday, December 9 at 7:00 p.m. ET on the next Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online[…]

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Heretic on the Hill: Post-Dinner Musings & Advocacy Updates

Following my Thanksgiving meal, I began musing how the the Pilgrims, who were undoubtedly Christian and sacrificed a great deal in the name of their Christian beliefs, resembled many modern American atheists in interesting ways: • When they worshipped in[…]

Humanists International: Let’s make final push to #ProtectHumanistsAtRisk

Humanists International renews its call to reach the goal before the year ends to #ProtectHumanistsAtRisk worldwide. The post Humanists International: Let’s make final push to #ProtectHumanistsAtRisk appeared first on Humanists International.

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We’re thankful for you!

Dear Friends, On behalf of staff and board of directors at the Secular Coalition for America, I want to express our gratitude for everything you have done to support our work. When I look back at all we have accomplished[…]

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Coalition to Senate: Support Inclusive Child Care and Universal PreK Provisions in the Build Back Better Act

AHA joins the Leadership Conference and partners. The post Coalition to Senate: Support Inclusive Child Care and Universal PreK Provisions in the Build Back Better Act appeared first on American Humanist Association.

Humanists Deeply Saddened By Not Guilty Verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted of all charges. The post Humanists Deeply Saddened By Not Guilty Verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse Trial appeared first on American Humanist Association.

Humanists Applaud House Passage of Build Back Better Act, Urge Senate to Take Action

The AHA expresses support for the Build Back Better Act. The post Humanists Applaud House Passage of Build Back Better Act, Urge Senate to Take Action appeared first on American Humanist Association.

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Humanists Launch 10th Annual Freedom of Thought Report

The AHA hosts the global launch of the Freedom of Thought Report. The post Humanists Launch 10th Annual Freedom of Thought Report appeared first on American Humanist Association.

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