Atheist Ethicist

It's a good thing all those priests molested all those children, because this sure helps atheists prove the inferiority of religion. A...

Here is an easy rhetorical trick. In order to get around the objection that the phrase 'under God' is the endorsement of some type...

In looking at the tests that Majority applied in determining that the placement of 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance counts as...

In response to my proposal for a new type of legal challenge to 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, a member of the studio audi...

In order to get its desired result in declaring the use of 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance Constitutional, the appellate cou...

In reading through the opinion on Newdow vs. Rio Linda, I note that I have a significantly different tact on the issue of 'under God...

I would like to propose research into a new type of lawsuit against 'under God' and 'In God We Trust' - one that does not al...

I am, I confess, quite surprised at the lack of atheist response to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that a daily school ritual inc...

"I may have (falsely) claimed that you are a convicted child molester. However, I did not require you to say that you are a convicted c...

In defending its decision that "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional, the majority claims that it is relevant ...

A main argument that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals uses to argue that the Pledge of Allegiance, with the text "under God", is c...

This is a decision a long time in coming. Ninth Circuit upholds Pledge of Allegiance in public schools Some long-term readers may rememb...

What should be the focus of atheist and secular activism in America and around the world? This question comes up in two contexts. I've...

I find it interesting how often it is the case in criticism of religion that people allow the subject to get derailed onto a side issue - us...

Some frippen IDiots are going to get a lot of good people maimed and killed. A group of creationists are trying to get around objections t...

The best possible life that one can hope to obtain is to have one's brain put into a particular state, then locked in that state and pla...

In response to my complaint that secular organizations did not use the opportunity to meet with representatives of the Obama organization to...

In response to my claim that the value of a means is determined entirely by the value of the ends that the means realizes, a member of the s...

Chris Heathwood has written an article in which he tries to defend a particular theory on the value of a life. (See Desire Satisfaction an...

Members of the Obama Administration met with representatives of atheist organizations in the White House yesterday in what some have called ...