And the survey says……Religion is going down. A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all. Fifteen percent of respondents said they [...]
The United Nations is working to restrict the ability of people to openly criticize religion in all of its member nations. This is very troubling. Recently Christopher Hitchens was on CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight and was discussing the United Nations anti-blasphemy resolution that was passed last year in December as a non-binding resolution and the [...]
This is the most disgusting thing I’ve heard the Catholic church do in a long time. Archibishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of the coastal city of Recife announced that the Vatican was excommunicating the family of a local girl who had been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather, because they had chosen to have [...]
As a skeptical person who embraces reason, nothing is more troubling than having a spouse that is truly scared of the dark. I discussed in a previous article how my wife is a moderate christian. What frustrates me far beyond her christian faith is her superstitious nature and irrational beliefs in the supernatural. She openly [...]
Living in the bible belt I come in contact with all flavours of christians from the most extreme followers to those that only use the label. Being surrounded by believers can be quite annoying and disheartening sometimes especially when being married to one. My wife is a moderate christian meaning she pretty much straddles the [...]
Realizing I’m an Atheist This is the Third and final instalment of a three article series on my personal path to atheism. It might be beneficial to read the first article My Path to Atheism Part 1: Indoctrination into Christianity and My Path to Atheism Part 2: Thinking for Myself before this part if you [...]
Thinking for Myself This is the second installment of a multiple article series on my personal path to atheism. It might be beneficial to read the first article My Path to Atheism Part 1: Indoctrination into Christianity before this one if you haven’t already. In this next article I discuss starting to think for myself [...]
My Indoctrination into Christianity This is the first instalment of a multiple article series on my personal path to atheism. In this article I describe growing up and being indoctrinated into christianity. When I was a child I believed in childish things. Like everyone before the age of 10 my parents were the authority on [...]
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