Rick Santorum is having trouble keeping his food down. A statement made about religion and politics a long time ago gave him a sour stomach. The candidate for the Republican presidential nomination was speaking out in favor of religion in the public square on Sunday, and according to CBS News:…
I didn’t realize it at the time, but when I reached the conclusion that the evidence and arguments for the existence of a god were insubstantial or illusory, I gained entrance to a wealth of advantages for living a better and happier life. I recently realized one of these benefits…
The frequency of hyperbole and pretentious overstatement from the religious right has reached a sanctimonious fever pitch. It’s hard to know just where to begin, but because of the seemingly endless stream of absurd bombast supplied by Catholic leaders, Republicans and other theocrats, one can risk an arbitrary starting point.…
Faith is the surrender of the mind; it’s the surrender of reason, it’s the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It’s our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or…
