Author Archives: chasdarwin
Why Does Religion Always Get a Free Ride?
We try to persuade people out of almost every kind of idea there is. Why should religion be the exception?
How I Left My Evangelical Christian Faith
I am what you might call a slow learner. I managed to make it all the way through high school, despite an eating disorder I couldn’t pray away, and all the way through college, despite a suicidal depression triggered by the same eating disorder, and almost all the way through grad school before I finally gave up on my religion and god.
Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete?
“I think at some point you need to provoke people. Science is meant to make people uncomfortable.” Lawrence Krauss
When Religion is a Refuge for Scoundrels: ‘Ryan Budget’ Edition
From: Religion Dispatches By:DANIEL C. MAGUIRE “Six members of the Supreme Court are Catholics. Speaker of the House, John Boehner, and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell are Catholics. Also in this new Catholic dynasty is the alleged wunderkindof Republican economics: perky Paul Ryan. Ryan wears his form of Catholicism with a jaunty pride, declaring that “Catholic [...]
The Top 10 Reasons I Don’t Believe in God
“Does God exist?” is a valid and relevant question. Here are my top reasons why the answer is a resounding, “No.”
The New Legal Theory That Enables Homophobic Evangelizing in Public Schools
The lesson we may learn from our experiences over the past decade is that the founding fathers were right, all along, in acknowledging that religion is more than simply a form of speech. They knew what some of our law-makers and policy-makers may have failed to grasp: when government gets mixed up in the religion business, no outcome is pretty.
The Value of Evolution, and the Poverty of creationism
This is the joy, not of simple description, but of creation. It is the expression, common to both the arts and science, of the somewhat grand, somewhat ignoble, all too human pursuit of originality in the face of total dependence on the achievements of others.”
Does the Inquisition Explain the Modern World?
For the Inquisition indeed echoes loudly in the hysteria over Muslims and illegal immigrants.
Barely Literate? How Christian Fundamentalist Homeschooling Hurts Kids
The Religious Right touts homeschooling as the “responsible” educational choice. But what about the kids whose parents opt-out of the system — and out of educating them, as well?
