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It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'. There may be t...more

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Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abje...more

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The human species – mammalian primates though undoubtedly (s)he is, and made out of the dust of exploded suns - does have the need for the transcenden...more

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We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the cont...more

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So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been ...more

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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

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At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity....more

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If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

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The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Chur...more

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I am not even an atheist so much as an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influe...more

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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

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Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic R...more

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That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

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I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring an end to Muslim rese...more

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You don’t so much as become an atheist as find out that’s what you are. There’s no moment of conversion. You don’t suddenly think ‘I don’t believe thi...more