I received this email just a few days ago from a guy named Andy, and I thought you guys would get a kick out of it: Hello Jake I know you must get some real harsh mail concerning your fate when you die and as a follow of Christ I want to apologise for that, I want to applaud you in your decision making for at least you have given it some thought and have come to conclusion, but what I do not understand is t ...

The slander doesn't seem to want to go away. If we aren't being accused of dogmatically disbelieving, then we're being mean or belligerent, and every other imaginable insult, all because we don't share the notion a magical sky-man made the world. Now it looks as though organizations that were traditionally on our side have started taking potshots at us. Check out this article written by Dr. John Shook, who ...

I have to imagine the confusion is caused by the mistaken idea religion has anything to contribute to the conversation about our existence and our place in the Universe. They've been making the claim for so long it's considered "normal" to believe in God. They have it easy: they can make an infinite amount of baseless claims, and we're seen as the bad guys for calling them on their bullshit. So when a group ...

A few days ago I wrote an article about a crusty old religious white dude who claimed to know more about the Universe than Stephen Hawking, presumably because a dusty old book of myths told him so. Because Stephen had the "audacity" to postulate the Universe created itself, religious rubes have been tripping over one another trying to voice their objections to one of history's greatest minds smacking down t ...

I'll never grow tired of old, conservative gas-bags going on about how atheism is either dead, on it's way out, or, as this crusty old white dude said, “a joke". Because he's convinced only an invisible male patriarchal God is the proper explanation as to the existence of the Universe, columnist William Murchison believes the recent remarks of Stephen Hawking, claiming the Universe did not need a supernatur ...

If there's one thing you have to credit religion with, it's their ability to insert themselves into things, often painfully and occasionally in a way that merits jail time, but mysteriously enough results in no real punishment. Religion is so skilled at doing this they manage to convince throngs of people to believe without them, the fabric of their lives would fall apart. Take marriage for instance, how ma ...

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It's nice to see how people make up their own mind about the lack of any evidence of revealed religions. It doesn't take a genius to reject God: it just takes common sense and intellectual integrity! ...

Morgan Freeman is doing a series of TV shows for the Science Channel called 'Through the Wormhole', which discusses advances in discovery that astrobiology, string theory, quantum mechanics, and astrophysics have been making in our understanding of the universe. And while there are some signs  Freeman himself isn't exactly the most religious person in the world, he still had to pander to the religious crowd ...

Yeah, I know it has nothing to do with atheism, but regular contributor Jeff Jones and I are working on a new pilot project called "A Winner is Me". It's a cartoon featuring the two of us as we review video games and generally insult one another. If you love the podcast, you're going to flip out!. Be sure to sign up to our YouTube channel and "stay tooned" (what, you don't like my pun?) for more updates! ...