Atheist Ethicist

This is another addition to a story I have been writing that looks at the arguments surrounding the Pledge of Allegiance, and tries to prese...

This is the 15th in a new series of weekend posts taken from the presentations at the Salk Institute’s “Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0.” ....

This is the 16th in a new series of weekend posts taken from the presentations at the Salk Institute’s “Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0.” ....

This post represents the seventh in a series that I hope to use in a complete story to be finished before June. I do not know if I will actu...

The Bush Administration is making America a vile and despicable country. To make matters worse, it has now embarked on a campaign that, it s...

Last night I listened to the most recent episode of TED while I was on my exercise bike. TED is one of my favorite web sites to visit. It ...

This installment of the Perspective on the Pledge series was inspired by news of a billboard that went up in Pennsylvania, showing a sign mu...

I have two more parts to my Perspective on the Pledge series. The previous parts of this series can be found here: Perspective on the Pl...

This is the 15th in a new series of weekend posts taken from the presentations at the Salk Institute’s “Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0.” ....

This is the 14th in a new series of weekend posts taken from the presentations at the Salk Institute’s “Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0.” ....

Sometime between now and June, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will put out a decision as to whether "under God" in the Pledge, a...