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With Richard Dawkins in the Galapagos Islands – Part Two: Las Bachas, Santa Cruz

October 9, 2022 by Kristine Harley in Opinion

That first afternoon, we landed at Las Bachas on the island of Santa Cruz. To the right are turtle nests. To the left is an interesting intersection of tracks (an iguana and turtles). This beach is the home to the Pacific Green Sea Turtle, the Sea Iguana, the Great Blue Heron, flamingos, and various other […]

Wokeness Through the Eyes of a Former Jehovah’s Witness

October 3, 2022 by Ryan Tuttle in Opinion

I was born into a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses and as a conscientious young man I spent a lot of time analyzing religious teachings and trying to understand the world around me. I was taught that if I saw some problem with my religion that it wasn’t a problem with the religion but rather a […]

With Richard Dawkins in the Galapagos Islands – Part One: Quito and Baltra

September 26, 2022 by Kristine Harley in Opinion

In May of 2007 I went with the Center for Inquiry on one of their cruises, with the express purpose of meeting Richard Dawkins and Paul Kurtz. Unfortunately, Paul was unable to make this cruise so Eddie Tabash came in his place. (I was to meet Paul later at a conference.) The title of this […]

The Secular Right Isn’t Really New…

September 20, 2022 by Roling Kaloti in Opinion

I remember when the whole concept of a conservative, or at least right-leaning atheist, came across as a foreign concept. Back in 2014, the non profit organization American Atheists was disinvited from CPAC, which was the topic of a few opinion columns discussing how unwilling conservatives have been to accepting atheists. It’s ironic that nowadays […]

Loosening My Bible Belt

September 6, 2022 by Bryon Gray in Opinion

Who do you believe is crazier? The pastors who handle venomous snakes in church houses, or the guy they get to catch those snakes in the woods? Imagine if you will, being five years old, holding the lid open to the cooler your dad puts those snakes in, and he is depending on you to […]

Atheists Should Have No Secular Devil

September 5, 2022 by Kristine Harley in Opinion

There’s a saying: “Don’t think of a pink elephant.” In other words, what one resists can dominate and even control one’s mind, making the action a person wishes not to do the action that person ultimately does. Religious believers often use this accusation against atheists. We allegedly “resist” or “deny” a belief in God, therefore […]

Religion Continues to be Comedy Gold

August 30, 2022 by Max Carlisle in Opinion

With headlines about how various celebrities ranging from Ozzy Osbourne to Russell Brand have “found God”, one might think that religion has been regaining some of its lost ground in mainstream culture. But if the new Hulu comedy series “This Fool” is any indication, Catholicism and religion in general is still the butt of many […]

The Lie of Equality

August 9, 2022 by Alice McCoole in Opinion

A false conclusion which seems to have become the mainstream opinion nowadays is that everyone is equal. It is perhaps derived from the belief that all people should be equal before the law and have the same rights and same vote. I believe that people should have the right to the same opportunities and that […]

Waking Up

July 21, 2022 by Ryan Tuttle in Opinion / Uncategorized

A familiar panic set in as hateful public and private messages poured into my social media account. These were messages from the secular community demanding that I remove posts or calling me a bigot. Why was I receiving emotionally charged personal attacks and demands I remove my social media posts? I had committed the […]

In Defense of Dawkins

June 24, 2022 by Roling Kaloti in Opinion

In the past year, biologist and author Richard Dawkins has become the target of heavy criticism regarding his tweets on transgender people. Dawkins, who is best known as one of the “Four Horsemen of the New Atheist movement and for his best-selling books, The God Delusion, The Blind Watchmaker, and Outgrowing God, exposed a contradiction […]

The 2012 Reason Rally: 10 Years Later

March 24, 2022 by Thomas Sheedy in Opinion

It was 10 years ago today that the largest gathering of atheists (agnostics, skeptics, humanists & free-thinkers) in world history occurred. The 2012 Reason Rally, a successor to the 2002 Godless Americans March on Washington wasn’t expected to have the greatest amount of success on that cold rainy day. Christopher Hitchens passed away a few […]

It’s Not Immoral to Oppose So-Called Progressive Policies

March 8, 2022 by Ronald Lindsay in Opinion

Some years ago, Phil Zuckerman, a sociology professor at Pitzer College, wrote a crisply argued, engaging book titled ‘Society Without God.’ He maintained that low levels of religious belief do not increase immoral behavior. On the contrary, using empirical evidence, he pointed out that countries with low levels of religious belief, in particular Denmark and […]

Ten years after Elevatorgate | What we should learn from our past mistakes

June 3, 2021 by Thomas Sheedy in Opinion

You are a proud atheist in the emerging New Atheist movement attending one of the most impactful and energized conferences in your community. In June of 2011, you are in Dublin, Ireland, attending the World Atheist Convention, an event celebrating atheism, science advocacy, and secularism with some of the most famous freethinkers of the time. […]

America 2020: Where Conservatives are Liberals and Liberals are Conservatives

September 23, 2020 by Erich Hartmann in Opinion

The recent defections among high-profile intellectual liberals from the progressive left are only surprising if you haven’t been paying attention (The Harpers Letter, etc.). It was only a matter of time before these thoughtful and engaged adults were “red-pilled” and realized the cold, hard fact that the progressive left has abandoned them and is no […]

Social Justice is Destroying Atheist Groups – A Response to Attacks on Atheist Alliance International and Michael Sherlock

July 21, 2020 by Justin Vacula in Opinion

Days ago, following a tweet from Atheist Alliance International (AAI) Executive Director Michael Sherlock calling religion a “retarded relic that really needs archiving in humanity’s library of bad ideas,” a handful of Twitter users launched attacks on Michael Sherlock and Atheist Alliance International which led to AAI suspending Sherlock for one month without pay in […]