Link Between LGBT, Religion & Homelessness, Suicide
Being gay or in any way sexually different can be a real challenge for people who live in religious communities, and it appears that the higher the religiosity, the more challenging this will
Jonathan MS Pearce
Americans and Their Knowledge of Religion
Polling website FiveThirtyEight recently released a piece reporting on the Pew Research Center survey on Americ's knowledge of religion, one that always throws up interesting results. It's a questionnaire
Knowing Your Rights, Locke and Other Rights Problems - Take 2!
The rights debates raging on a number of recent comment threads have been pretty embarrassing for many of the people (gun advocates) taking part because they have simply not engaged with the conversation
Debunking Gun Advocate Approaches
It's all raging on the gun front. They are out in force. It's also very frustrating, and here's for why. Here is an example of a conversation
Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: God's Not Fair
Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK), has a plethora of gems in it for the reader and a smorgasbord of variety. It
Quote of the Day: Martin Zeichner on all sorts
Here is a comment from Martin Zeichner here at ATP: Let's start at the very beginning. A very good place to start. The first two words of the title of this
KNOWING Your Rights, Locke and Other Rights Problems
The rights debates raging on a number of recent comment threads have been pretty embarrassing for many of the people (gun advocates) taking part because they have simply not engaged with the conversation
Atheists Cheer Resolution to Combat International Blasphemy Laws
This is from the American Humanist Association: Leaders at the American Humanist Association (AHA) celebrated the re-introduction of H.Res. 512, developed to combat international religious discrimination. The AHA’s legislative advocacy team
Gary on... The Second Amendment!
As many of you will know, I wrote a couple of posts recently on the ontology of rights that brought a whole host of gun rights advocates to the blog to splurge their
The Second Amendment and Rights
A thread has recently exploded when I posted about the Second Amendment and drawing the line between acceptable and unacceptable weaponry. On the thread, one particularly obvious common denominator sprung up with all
Federal Court Bans School-Sponsored Graduation Prayers in South Carolina School District
This is from the American Humanist Association: The U.S. District Court of South Carolina ruled in favor of the American Humanist Association (AHA) in its longstanding lawsuit against Greenville County School District
On Gun Control and the Second Amendment
The way I like to spend my downtime relaxing is to have endless debates on Facebook. In this case, I was debating gun control and regulation last night. I'm going to