Atheist Ethicist

Typically, I wake up in the morning, select a topic, and write my first draft on the bus as I go to work. I research the topic some more dur...

In reading some text against a referendum on the ballot here in Colorado, I saw an argument that fits in a family that I resolved a few year...

With Iraq having voted on its new Constitution, I thought that this would be a good time to say something about morality within a democracy....

Follow Up on Dobson’s Remarks Four days ago , I wrote about James Dobson, the founder and head of Focus on the Family, admitted that a wro...

The Bush Administration and the Religious Right ultimately want all Americans to face trial, not by standing in front of a secular judge, bu...

A hypocrite is a person who accuses somebody else of doing something that the accuser would readily do himself if given a chance -- much lik...

While others are concerned with whether key members of the Bush Administration, and Karl Rove in particular, broke the law in revealing the ...

On Tuesday, October 4, James Dobson , the founder and leader of the religious conservative organization Focus on the Family, said on his rad...

In the past week there were a couple of positive developments in the morality realm to report. (1) Israel's Supreme Court prohibited t...

States need the freedom to experiment with different ways of balancing the interests of those who have no reason to continue living with tho...

A religion that tells its follows to attack their neighbors, or take over the government and use it against the interests of his neighbors, ...

I am going to be appearing on the Infidel Guy show at 8:00 Eastern Time on Friday, October 7th. The topic of that discussion will be Thei...

The American Atheist organization is opposing S 1765 on the basis that it contains a provision for rebuilding churches and other religious ...

A number of Republicans and Republican supporters are claiming that we the people of the United States cannot be trusted to competently perf...