I came across this website, "Charter for Compassion", which is the latest attempt by religious moderates to extend an olive branch to other religions in the hope of curbing fundamentalism. The site asks for people to discuss stories of compassion that they have experienced in their lives. I believe it is their hope to communicate through these stories the idea that all people share the need for acts of kind ...

What you believe about the supernatural has a powerful influence over how you treat the natural, physical world. For instance, if you think that life begins right at the moment of conception, you may feel the need to deny the rights of others to terminate unwanted pregnancies. It wouldn't matter if you lacked any real evidence of this; it's inconsequential. Some can be so convinced of this fact that they wo ...

Debating God is tough work. For starters, in most circumstances, the audience is not on your side. Agnostics and Atheists are the minority in a country where the population describes itself as either religious or very religious. Secondly, anyone debating against the existence of God seems to have the difficult task of trying to disprove the idea, rather then rightly asking any of the claimants for proof. Fi ...

It seems a little ironic that a statue in Golden Colorado, recently damaged by a bolt of lightning, may not be covered by the church’s insurance due to it being considered an “act of God”. The fact, however, that it hit and destroyed a holy symbol and doesn’t appear to unnerve any of the nuns there seems pretty weird to me. Bleeding statues and you have a miracle; a lightning bolt severs the hand of ...

In December of last year, I began work on a book entitled “The Good Atheist”. The reason for wanting to write this book was a reaction to the events that were happening all around us; from the violent sectarian uprisings in the Muslim world, to the growing Christian fundamentalist movement in America. I wanted to try and combat the problem of growing religious intolerance and hatred. The problem of grow ...