Atheist Ethicist

It has been a while since I have written on a Constitutional issue, so let me briefly go over the rules. This is not a blog about what the...

In a recent blog, “ President Wanted: Christians Only ,” vjack at Atheist Revolution spoke about the bigotry involved in refusing to vote ...

The impetus for this pulse is a comment to my post two days ago, “ Patricia Churchland: The Biology of Morality ” . That comment hinted to...

In this series on the Beyond Belief 2006 conference, I am now up to Session 6, where the first speaker was Susan Neiman. Neiman, a Fellow...

Since I started this series on the presentations of Beyond Belief 2006 , I have been aching to get to this section – the section on morality...

Greetings, readers I am taking the evening off to spend it with my wife. I haven't had a day off since Thanksgiving, and I think that ...

Today’s post was adapted from an article that appeared in the Chicago Tribune: “ Don't drop `don't ask, don't tell,' Pace sa...

The Democratic Party in Nevada recently broke off plans to work with Fox News to host a Democratic presidential debate. The proximate cau...

Today’s post is an example of the value of forming an “alliance of the best 51 percent” – including some who believe in God – against the wo...

I have spent the last couple of weeks focusing rather exclusively on the relationship between religion and ethics. I think that it is time f...

When discussing the relationship between science and religion, Albert Einstein and Carl Sagan both expressed a preference for what they call...

I now enter Weekend 7 in my series on the presentations at Beyond Belief 2006 . Session 5 in this series began with a presentation from Pa...