Apparently, Huff Post didn't like my comment.  It went from pending to nonexistent in the space of thirty seconds.  I don't even see it in my own list of activities.  I've made some pretty negative comments about religion before without any problems, so this was unexpected.

Jeff DeGraff wrote an article titled The New Mass as New Coke where he's whining about a change in the…

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If you are an atheist on twitter, you probably already know about such people as @prophetwriter, @heidiraff, @JoeCienkowski, and @JuanitaBerguson. Many atheists on twitter spend a great deal of time arguing with them, ridiculing them, or being exasperated by them.



Yesterday,… Continue

Lately, I've noticed something. I occasionally come across people on twitter making homophobic comments. Of course, these people all tend to be on the nuttier side of christianity. No surprise there. And, of course, I often call them out on it using a sprinkling of profanity, blasphemy, and personal insults. What can I say? It is my way.



Now, most of these people block me, but a few of them actually try to defend their nasty… Continue

There seems to be some controversy among non-believers as to the best way to refer to themselves. There are atheists, agnostics, free-thinkers, humanists, brights, godless, etc. Personally, I have no problem with any of these terms. It is not for me to decide how other people should identify themselves.



Like everyone else, though, I do have a term which I prefer over the others, and that term is "atheist". For me, the choice to use this term happened in a single week, and the… Continue