Atheist Ethicist

Today, December 7, 2011, is the 70th anniversary if the day that will live in infamy - the day that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and brought ...

In an opinion piece on the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, Bradley Shiller asks, "What is so awful about the top 1%?" H...

This post concerns an item of personal interest. It is really looking like, by the end of this decade - indeed, within the next couple of ...

A Wall Street Journal opinion piece discussing global warming states that "absolute certainty is not scientific". (See, Wall Str...

On Facebook, I received an invitation to "a day of protest against child religious grooming" - January 15th. (See Facebook Day o...

It is . . . interesting . . . to discover that the world is filled with so many people eager to provide a smoke screen - often without pay -...

We have had two news events recently concerning the issues of apology and forgiveness. The first is an incident I mentioned yesterday. It ...

This past week, we were treated to three examples of anti-atheist bigotry. In the first, a store owner operating near the site of the Skep...

Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich would use belief in God as a criteria for determining who stays in America and who do deport...

$850,000 will allow you to purchase the services of a firm that will put it's skills to work discrediting the Occupy Wall Street movemen...

It appears that honesty is not a virtue for Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney. He is airing his first anti-Obama advertisement...

I want to demand that the government deficit super-committee members show us the actual proposals they made during the past three months of ...

The "Occupy" movement is the offspring of the "Tea Party" movement and is now a better representative if its principles ...

Would we be better off without religion? This is the debate question. Answer: Not necessarily. This is not the answer many atheists gi...

If I could make a suggestion for the next election, it would be that a concerted effort be made to oust from office any politician who has s...

Two Republican candidates for President - Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann - said in a recent debate that they do not consider waterboarding...

I have been asked to respond to the following comment: Wait so your assertion about not doing evil basically distills down to "Becaus...