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.
Hans Johnson, AlterNet. October 9, 2009. The founder of the nation's largest LGBT church and a noted activist say when it comes to restoring same-sex marriage to California, patience is a virtue.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 14, 2009. A film about Charles Darwin that is being shown throughout the world can't find a U.S. distributor.
Nathan Schneider, The Immanent Frame. September 8, 2009. A religion scholar discusses the failure of the courts to grapple with lived religion, the prison crisis and why we are all religious now.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 2, 2009. If you have to leave Fido behind, wouldn't you like to know he's in the care of a loving atheist?
Susan Henking, Religion Dispatches. August 27, 2009. A recent study finds that certain majors are likely to make students less religious. Why is this such a big deal?
J. Terry Todd, Religion Dispatches. August 17, 2009. Promise Keepers has repackaged its muscular Christianity and evangelical nationalism for a post-9/11 world.
Paul Gorrell, Religion Dispatches. August 14, 2009. The classic protest musical, Hair, is back to tackle what many consider to be the biggest civil rights issue of our era: marriage equality.
Rob Boston, Church & State Magazine. August 11, 2009. David Barton likens himself to a biblical prophet. He wants to destroy the separation of church and state. Why is he designing school curricula?
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. August 8, 2009. Religious communities don't have to be the enemy of gay rights -- in fact, as some are showing, they can help swing votes for equality.
Ray McGovern, Consortium News. August 1, 2009. Who but the cowardly crew leading the "Christian" churches can be held responsible for the fact that many of their flock believe in torture?
