I enjoyed watching Freedom From Religion Foundation Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel go on Fox "News" and destroy goon Bill O'Reilly on January 18, 2013.

There's no one quite as righteous as the one who believes himself to be part of the chosen people.

The Catholic Church's ongoing sex abuse scandal has lent itself to late-night jokes, investigative reports, disillusioned churchgoers, shameful clergy and lest we forget, an untold amount of shattered victims.

Though there were publicized prosecutions of priests as early as the 1960s, it wasn't until the Boston Globe's award-winning piece in 2002 highlighting the recent rash of…

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Hello TA! So I recently got to watch BIll Maher's documentary, "Religulous". Fantastic movie. (He's a bit of an ass at times but still gets the tough questions out there). It stars Bill Maher himself, roaming the country (and even parts of the Vatican itself), questioning the religious beleifs of people from America to Islam. It even has a few good laughs in it.

 

If anyone here hasn't seen it yet, PLEASE do. It is an amazing and hilarious documentary well worth your…

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Growing up I was in a fairly religiously ambiguous family. One of my cousins married a friend of mine whom was religious. Everyone started having kids at the same time and the next thing I knew, I was the lone wolf. I had a conversation about religion with one of my aunts once who asked, "Where do you get your morality?" My response was, "I don't have Jesus to forgive me. I have to live with my actions." I think that I struck a chord in her. Of course it changes nothing in her, but it did… Continue

Here's an excerpt from my latest Examiner article: "I wanted to believe that Maher was only a little wacky when it comes to modern medicine but I really had no idea how much of that Kool-Aid he drank. But Orac has opened my eyes to Maher’s beliefs when arguing why Maher should not receive the Richard Dawkins Award, an award that is intended to not only celebrate one’s promotion of atheism but one’s commitment to science and reason..." To read more,… Continue