Richard Dawkins And Penn Jillette’s New Books Make Science Exciting And Give Atheism A Humor Upgrade
by Damon Martin Finding humor and easy to understand facts as an atheist isn't always an easy thing to do. Being an atheist myself, I'm always...
Got Jesus? – 10 Unlikely Businesses, Products And Services That Claim To Have JC On Their Side
by Damon Martin Have you been looking for a new way to let Jesus into your life? Well, this list of God-related businesses, products and services might...
Brad Warner’s Hardcore Zen: The End of the World As We Know It
by Brad Warner My friend John Graves sent me a photo of a billboard that's been appearing all over Los Angeles. The one he took a picture of was right...
Asherah: The Wife of God?
by Keith Daniels The Bible is often presented by believers as a monolithic creation, as if it descended from Heaven whole, perfect, and in King James'...
SuicideGirls’ Group Therapy
by Blogbot A column which highlights Suicide Girls and their fave groups. (image) [Tarion in Decadence: Are Atheists Your Cup Of Tea?] This week we commune...
Atheists Are Good Without God (And It’s Not A War on Christmas)
by Damon Martin During the holiday season, atheists in America and Canada are letting everyone know they are still good without God. The message has been...
Brad Warners Hardcore Zen: Women, Evolution and Buddhism
I was very pleasantly surprised to see R. Elisabeth Cornwells articles The Evolution of Religion and Why Women Are Bound to Religion: An Evolutionary...
Why Women Are Bound to Religion: An Evolutionary Perspective
As we celebrate the 200th birthday of the godfather of evolution, Charles Darwin, mankind still looks to religion for answers that his theories have tangibly...
Brad Warner's Hardcore Zen: Why Can't We Accept Good Spiritual Advice Unless It Comes From Superman?
My new book, Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate is out now. The nice folks at Borders put an excerpt from the book on-line and you can read it by...
The Evolution of Religion
At SuicideGirls our mission is to challenge stereotypical ideas (both physical and philosophical) forced on us by society, to encourage free-thinking, and...
The Art Of War On Christmas
I love Christmas. Halloween is more fun, but Christmas feels more important. Everything's shut down, everyone just takes some time out. I'm almost...
How Harmless Becomes Monstrous: African Child Witches and Superstition
Warning: This subject might be too graphic and, frankly, depressing for some. It involves severe child abuse and murder. Making limited headlines lately,...
Faith, Angst and Hate The American Credo?
Louis, by the grace of God, King of France and Navarre, to all present and to come, greeting from the year 1708: (image) As Very Catholic Majesty Louis...
Real Love: How True Families Are Affected by the Hate of Prop 8
Part 1: Julie Rose and Lynda Brocchini (image) Shortly before going to bed at midnight last night, Julie Rose updated her Facebook status message: "Julie...
Filtering the Truth: Religion - Friend or Foe?
Spirituality is a wonderful thing. I have my reservations about religion though. Although some think it's one in the same, I do not. In fact, I think...
First Shots Fired in Religion vs. IRS Battle
(image) Yesterday the first volleys were fired by the religious Right against the IRS code that prohibits churches from endorsing candidates from pulpit.
Some Evangelicals Finally Catch On
I should like to start with a slight apology. I am unable to link directly to the story I am discussing, as The New Yorker does not have all stories from...
Which Creeps Run Your State?
National Elections are up and coming in November. They will be here before you know it. While doing some research online about local issues I continuously...
Moses...High on God, or Just Plain High?
(image) When the man played famously by Charlton Heston witnessed the Plagues, parted the Red Sea, and fought all those damn dirty apes, they may not have...
How Gaia Got Her Groove Back
While sitting in JFK last month reading Green Hermeticism, a book inspired by the eponymous conferences held by the Suluk Academy on alchemy and ecology,...
Naked Chocolate Jesus Cries Because You Drink Miller Lite
(image) The Miller Brewing Company has recently come under fire from conservative Christian groups for sponsoring San Franciscos annual Folsom Street...
Sorry Folks, The Elections Over
(image) I hate to break the news to all of you politics junkies whove been amusing yourselves by debating issues like Just how evil is Hillary Clinton?,...
Master Chief Versus God: Let the Battle Begin
(image) Let me begin by saying that I don't play the Halo games--I think I'm one of about 6 people on the planet that don't. I just don't...
John McCain Hasn't Read the Constitution
(image) Either that, or hes a fucking moron. Seriously, its the only way one could come to the same conclusion he did last weekend when he said the...
"The most deadly of things are the two that are red, gold and saffron."
(image) Heard of the Women's League of Burma? It's is a multi-ethnic umbrella organization of twelve ethnic women's organizations from the...
Reverend Magdalen and the Right to Fake Faith
(image) I dont know how many of you have been following the sad and strange tale of Rachel Bevilacqua, whom you also might know as Reverend Magdalen of...
Christian Domestic Discipline - Over the Knees is the REAL new position.
With all the sexy, fun play S+M offers, it comes as no surprise that everyone wants in on it. Including Christians. Of course, letting themselves indulge...
Pope Benedict XVI: One True Faith Are Belong To Us
(image) Imagine if Dick Cheney had become President right after Ronald Reagan left office, only with more elaborate hats, and youd have a good idea of...
Canuck Zombie to Save World on July 17
(image) Once-dead Canuck Shelley Yates believes that otherworldly voices have guided her since her water-logged body and that of her son were pulled from...
Religion is the New Black
(image) Or so says the Justice Department anyway. Thank goodness Republicans blocked a no-confidence vote for Gonzales on Monday. Hes clearly doing...
Supreme Court Ignores "War on Christmas"
A yuletide favorite of Bill O'Reilly and other pundits has been the "War on Christmas", a fictional barrage from a non-existent leftist cabal...
Onward, Christian Soldiers
It's no big secret that the vast majority of Americans define themselves as some variety of Christian. Nor would it shock anyone (particularly in...
Exciting New Think Tank Comes 6 Years Too Late
The first hint of trouble should have been the President's directive to create an Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives back at the beginning...
Needled News: Marisa DiMattia's Tattoo Revue
Praise be! Salvation for all porn-lovin heathens is herein the form of tattooed hipsters. It was only a matter of time: Evangelical Christianity meets...
Katherine Harris is the Chosen One
Katherine Harris is a political columnist's wet dream (though certainly not in any literal interpretation of the phrase.) She's like the Tara...
Baptist Church: Women Can't Teach Men!
The First Baptist Church of Watertown, New York would like to welcome all its congregants to the eleventh century, as their reversion to a fundamentalist...
Needled News: Marisa DiMattia's Tattoo Revue
The blaring headlines this week were all about killing in the name of god; still, it took a plot for mass murder to knock Lindsey Lohan off the top news...
Needled News: Marisa DiMattia's Tattoo Revue
With this post, I mark my first weekly round-up of tattoo news for SuicideGirls, and theres plenty to talk about. Case in point, blogs were buzzing this...
Bushs Stupidity May Cause Head to Implode
Our great leader is currently in Russia attending the G-8 conference. He took some time out of pretending to know what was going on in the meetings to...
Obama Gets it Wrong
Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill) burst on to the political scene in 2004 with one of the most enthusiastically backed and followed political campaigns in recent...