Atheist Ethicist

This posting is a part of a continuing series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon program, tracing the launches that occured...

The Manhattan Declaration, as it turns out, is an attempt by a bunch of religious conservatives to try to defend their least defensible poli...

In my last post I wrote about how the Manhattan Declaration is a call for the religious sacrifice of human beings to a god on a scale never ...

Imagine that a solar eclipse strikes the nation. Under the guidance of its religious leaders, the government immediately starts to round up ...

There is something monstrously arrogant in claiming that one gets one's morality from God. The speaker is saying that, "The mind ...

I am still not clear on how you get to come up with the judgment of "bigot" on the writers of the Manhattan Declaration. A bigot...

The Manhattan Declaration is a declaration written to present a particular religious view on moral issues regarding life, marriage, and reli...

Religious liberty means that the government has an absolute obligation to ban the raising of pigs and the selling of pork, demand the wearin...

I have been writing this month on the Manhattan Declaration - a document outlining a set of principles on matters of life, marriage, and rel...

Religious moralities do not come from gods. They come from human beings. They are assigned to gods as a way to give them an illusion of legi...

According to a recent declaration on Christian principles, if a person were to stand up in a crowded room, shout "Allah Akbar", an...

All fiction should be condemned. If not banned outright, we should at least universally condemn all fictionists - people who create and dist...

In light of some recent discussion, I think it is time to specify some basic propositions. (1) There is no God. Some people may be distr...

Pledges, Promises, and Prescriptions A 10 year old boy, Will Phillips, is getting attention because he has made a principled stand not to ...

A great many Republican politicians and pundits, and a few Democrats, apparently think that rights are the blessings of government - that go...