Category Archives: Religion

Women and Patriarchy

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Redheaded Heretic

Dear Atheology Readers, I am honored to have been invited by Dwight to write a post on atheology.com. Raised by Fundamentalist parents in the Bible Belt, I am excited to share some of my thoughts on why women join—and leave—fundamentalist … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Feminism, Patriarchy | 4 Comments

Hector Avalos – Six Anti-Secularist Themes

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Dwight

There’s a great article by Hector Avalos over at debunkingchristianity which I heartily recommend. Dr. Avalos is a professor of Biblical Studies at Iowa State University and the targets of his post are six rhetorical devices commonly used by “religionist” … Continue reading →

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Do Test Tube Babies Have Souls?

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Dwight

Last month God and China got pissed off at the committee that awards the Nobel Prize. China because the Peace Prize went to someone they threw in prison for advocating democracy. And God?  Well, Robert Edwards won the Nobel Prize … Continue reading →

Posted in Afterlife & Immortality, Christianity | 42 Comments

Military Madness

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Dwight

No benefit for human beings is more obvious than the benefit of demilitarizing the world. Every dollar spend on weaponry and war is a dollar not spent improving our lives. As Glenn Greenwald’s review of military expenditures shows, one country’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Bush Wars, Christianity, Religion | 6 Comments

Torture and American Christianity

Posted on December 25, 2007 by Dwight

December 25, the holiday long celebrated as the birthday of the Unconquered Sun, but more recently as the birthday of Jesus Christ, the central figure in Christianity. Jesus is generally presented as a pacifist, author of the sermon on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles Highlighted, Bushwacked, Christianity, Civil Unliberties, Ethics & Morality, Religion, State & Church, Torture | 11 Comments

What atheists have in common

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Dwight

It’s often said that the only thing atheists have in common is what they disbelieve. It’s also often said that disbelieving in God is just as much a religious belief as is believing in God, or more exactly, that both … Continue reading →

Posted in Naturalism, Non-Existence Arguments, Supernaturalism | 6 Comments

Prayers & Queries

Posted on June 17, 2007 by Dwight

(On the Subjective Value of Non-Existent Beings) When I bend my knee meekly and throw up a thoughtless prayer to a God greater than me I feel better immediately. But it works regardless who I supplicate with my fevered wishes. … Continue reading →

Posted in Atheist Culture, Prayer | 3 Comments

Can General Atheism be Proved?

Posted on June 3, 2007 by Dwight

In Agnosticism Revisited and the Case for Atheism I argued that being agnostic about the Judeo-Christian-Islamic Creator isn’t justifiable. I used the Argument from Perfection (a version of the Problem of Evil) to demonstrate that belief in a perfect creator … Continue reading →

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Fundamental Enemies

Posted on May 6, 2007 by Dwight

It is not easy to make human pleasure the enemy. It is not easy to induce people to sacrifice the creature comforts of bodily life for the wasteland of spiritual existence called heaven: paranoia and fear are required for the … Continue reading →

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Five Revelations

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Dwight

I became an atheist through the back door, as explained elsewhere. It wasn’t until after I had been godless for several years that I began to discover the usual arguments that, for most non-believers, led to atheism. It was only … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Faith & Reason, Prayer, Religion, Unsacred Texts | 3 Comments