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So that’s why Darwin looks so much like Santa Claus


A Moderate Proposal

The start of the event was running late -- did I mention it was a Jewish event? -- and midway through our green room conversation, Hitchens pulled out a small bottle of Johnnie Walker Black. He emptied it into a 16-ounce clear-plastic cup and drizzled in some Crystal Geyser spring water. And he began sipping.

Godless morality


Elizabeth Dole’s Godless ad is a shameful attack


Richard Dawkins: still godless, now jobless


Religion: The ‘first and worst’ explanation

It belongs to the terrified childhood of our species, before we knew about germs or could account for earthquakes. It belongs to our childhood, too, in the less charming sense of demanding a tyrannical authority: a protective parent who demands compulsory love even as he exacts a tithe of fear.

Bill Maher, Catholic and Jewish, master of guilt


Bill Maher gets downright ‘Religulous’

"What I am saying is if you are religious at all, you are an extremist," Maher said in a phone interview last week.

Defender of Faith:
Rabbi David Wolpe explains why faith matters

As we get older, we no longer ask so many questions aloud. Our questions become more private: Why? Why are we on this earth? Events occur, and we ask: Why me? Or, why not me?

Answering Hitchens on moral superiority


Atheists ask: ‘Jesus Christ had a homosexual relationship?‘


Democrats don’t get ... atheism


Atheist ‘coming out party’


A chaplain for atheists?


Americans (allegedly) don’t do atheism


Final word on PZ Myers and communion? Don’t count it


Communion wars: People don’t get the holy ‘cracker’ *


How many atheists believe in God?


Agnostic about atheism

I enjoy pilgrimage sites as much as I enjoy sampling the obsessive-compulsive cuisine born of a strict religious diet

Even atheists have feelings


Hermione is Dawkins’ daughter


Born-again Christians more likely to divorce


Sam Harris, Santa Claus know if you don’t believe


He doesn’t believe in atheists


Atheist soldier sues Army


MySpace removes atheists, makes way for God


Those godless Jews


A suspension of disbelief


Interview with an atheist lobbyist


Esther on Auslander


Hitchens: ‘To Hell with Hanukkah’


Not a real atheist?


‘Refighting the Wars of Religion’


Christians who haven’t seen the movies or read the books they profess to be evil


A Christian responds to atheism


Atheism for baby eaters


An atheist turns to God


Being drunk in the Spirit or just spiritually drunk?


A different scarlet letter


‘Listen little girl, you’re really cute and all, but I don’t believe in Jesus’


Dawkins’ Jew slander has hurt atheists


Why it mattered and didn’t that Jefferson was an atheist


Who exactly are ‘militant atheists’ attacking?


Dawkins: Jews ‘monopolize American foreign policy’


The allure of atheism for a liberal Jew


The morals of an atheist


My take on Mark Lilla’s ‘Stilborn God’


Question for the day


Atheist summer camp


The New Atheists


Is Karl Rove an atheist?


Atheism du Jour

Atheism has become chic. In itself, this might be a helpful thing, after all faith, like every other system, strengthens itself by intelligent challenge. But too much of the contemporary attack on religion is just that -- an attack fueled by grievance and not by careful consideration.