Greta Christina, AlterNet. December 19, 2009. Even though the standard winter holidays are supposedly religious, there are ample reasons for atheists to celebrate, too.
Ellen Friedrichs, AlterNet. December 17, 2009. Many cling to the notion that casual sex must be damaging. Recent research -- and a little historical perspective and common sense -- shows otherwise.
Truthdig AlterNet: PEEKDecember 14, 2009. Nancy Cartwright, the face behind Bart Simpson, is here to tell you in her non-cartoon voice about the excitement of recruiting new members.
Liz Langley, AlterNet. December 10, 2009. Calendars and videos featuring scantily clad Mormons are helping redefine images of the Latter Day Saints -- but not everyone in the Church is happy.
Eleanor J. Bader, RH Reality Check. December 9, 2009. Why does Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, which teaches students to be "Champions for Christ," get tax-exempt status?
Amanda Mueller, TruthOut.org. December 6, 2009. The Andersons were devastated to learn their unborn child wouldn't live. Dr. Tiller showed them the compassion they so badly wished they had from their friends.
Troy Jollimore, Truthdig. December 6, 2009. A new book, "The Case for God," argues that prominent non-believers like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris are wrong. Is it based on wishful thinking?
Sena Christian, AlterNet. December 5, 2009. Ted Cox posed as a gay man to infiltrate gay-to-straight therapy programs. What he found was equal parts shocking and tragic.
Greta Christina, AlterNet. November 20, 2009. It's possible to keep the good parts of religion -- like the music, rituals and pageantry -- and get rid of the sex-hating dogma, the belief in god and other troublesome aspects.
Greta Christina, AlterNet. November 13, 2009. Religion is uniquely armored against anything that might stop it from spinning into extreme absurdity, extreme denial of reality and extreme, grotesque immorality.
Devilstower, Daily Kos. November 10, 2009. A new book points out that the ancient Christians -- and even early Americans -- did not share the blind faith of today's fundamentalists.
Russell Blackford, Udo Schuklenk, Comment Is Free. November 9, 2009. Civility has its uses, but atheists should not be afraid to mock faith to undermine religious power.
PZ Myers, Pharyngula AlterNet: PEEK. November 5, 2009. "I may just have to convert to Catholicism so I can charge the US and my insurance provider to cover my near-sightedness treatments at Lourdes."
Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. November 3, 2009. The most aggressive members of the "New Atheism" movement have quite a bit in common with religious extremists like Pat Robertson and Ted Haggard.
Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog. October 30, 2009. Many of the beliefs held by religious moderates -- smart people who respect science and the separation of church and state -- are as untenable as the dogma of fundamentalists.
PZ Myers, Pharyngula AlterNet: PEEK. October 25, 2009. She takes a series of statements about god that she says need rethinking, but her thinking is a complete mess.
Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog. October 24, 2009. This isn't Beatrix Potter here. It's more like "Dangerous Liaisons" by way of Quentin Tarantino. With tents, sand, and sheep.
Anna Hartnell, Comment Is Free. October 17, 2009. It's easy to paint American Christians as right wing free-marketeers -– but the truth is far more complex.
Roy Edroso, Alicublog AlterNet: PEEK. October 15, 2009. You thought the Nobel was the end of it? Crunchy Rod Dreher howls about the injustice of... Bill Maher winning the Richard Dawkins Award.
Love Honor CherishOctober 10, 2009. Every day that Prop 8 remains part of the California Constitution, we each lose something. Here's why we should not lose a moment in the fight to repeal it.
