As the crew of “Ask an Atheist” collapses into some well-earned rest, we’re taking a step back and looking at the whirlwind of a week we’ve had. In the final days of Family Radio’s  Rapture-stravaganza, the media started taking a keen interest in the end of the world and our reaction to it Here’s […]

  Well, it didn’t happen. Again. Harold Camping of Family Radio’s  prediction that Jesus would return today and usher in the End of Days can be tossed on to history’s pile of failed prophecies. There was no major earthquake. No zombies. No locust plague. While I’d like to believe that his cult will be so […]

I normally leave the articles on the blog to other, more qualified folks, but I feel compelled to speak up, briefly, about something I read today. This is from an opinion piece at Chicago Now, which appears to be a part of the Chicago Tribune news contraption: As for me,  all this doomsday stuff about […]

Skeletor! Just kidding, that’s Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church. Though it’s still a bit sketchy – it looks like some of the WBC may be heading up to Seattle this summer to protest the Seattle SlutWalk.

  When non-believers and skeptics point out the harm done by religious dogma, moderates and liberals tend to rebut us with a handful of names. Most often mentioned is Jim Wallis.  Wallis is the founder of a liberal-leaning evangelical Christian group called Sojourners and publishes a magazine of the same name. In fact, he’s the […]