Death and the Skeptic
"The world began when I was born and the world is mine to win." —Badger Clark As much as the anthropocentric arrogance and subjectivity of the above statement contradict obvious facts, it could be said... Read More
Will the Great Corrupters Please Rise
What is a philosopher? What is a scientist? What is a teacher? What is a poet? When we set about answering such questions in a way that takes us beyond dictionary definitions, we usually find... Read More
Confessions of a Prayer-Struck Atheist
Is it ever intellectually honest for an atheist to pray? Indeed, can an atheist claim, without manifest absurdity, to have a relationship with God? Midway through my Iraq deployment as an Army journalist, these abstract... Read More
The Reason “Everything Happens for a Reason”
The following is an excerpt from Living Without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided by Ronald Aronson (Counterpoint Press, 2008) Belonging to an impatient culture promising instant answers, often poorly equipped... Read More
Belief and a Change of Fortune
In February 2007 famed British athlete and born-again Christian Jonathan Edwards resigned from Songs of Praise, BBC television's flagship religious program. The reason? According to the June 27 Times of London, he'd come to the... Read More
