Author: Adam Lee

Author’s Note: This post kicks off the “Of God and Government” debate series, featuring me and a Christian author, Andrew Murtagh, which I intend to become a semi-regular feature on Daylight Atheism. You can read Andrew’s opening statement on Patheos’ Versus blog, and this is my initial reply. I’ll also be appearing at the Midtown…

Rand’s idea that work and achievement are their own reward is eerily similar to the ideas of communists; why Dagny Taggart is an agent of collectivism.

[Author’s Note: For my newest AlterNet article on atheist churches, I reached out to some friends and acquaintances who were involved with these organizations, including Korey Peters. Korey has previously written on Daylight Atheism about the Calgary Secular Church, the atheist community organization he cofounded, and was happy to help out for my new column.…

My latest column is now up on AlterNet, Why People Are Flocking to a New Wave of Secular Communities: Atheist Churches. In it, I report on the Sunday Assembly and other so-called atheist churches now gaining in visibility and prominence: what they’re all about, what’s driving their growth, and what benefits they offer us. Read…

I’m a bit behind on my book reviews (again), so here’s a post reviewing the two most recent that’ve come my way. As per my usual book review policy, I accepted review copies of both books, but no other compensation. A Modern Christmas Carol by Bob Seidensticker My Patheos colleague Bob Seidensticker has written a…

No matter how many risky decisions Rand’s heroes make, things always work out for them. In real life, we aren’t so fortunate.

A few days ago, progressive blogs reported on the “McResource Line”, an instantly infamous (and quickly-disappeared) website created by McDonald’s to offer comically insensitive health and financial advice to its 1.8 million employees, who collectively earn $7.75 an hour on average. Among the stress-reducing tips on this site were: quit complaining about your low-wage job…

Last week, voters in Albuquerque decisively defeated a ballot measure that would have banned abortion in the city after 20 weeks, by a ten-point margin. The failed ban, which made no exceptions for rape, incest or fatal fetal abnormality, was the culmination of a months-long campaign by anti-choice groups in the city, including a grossly…

I’m mostly going to do book reviews for SF/F Saturday. But today’s an anniversary that it’d be a sin to pass over! Fifty years ago today, a low-budget TV show debuted on the BBC in an unspectacular time slot. It was originally intended by the network to be a children’s educational program, and even that…

Atlas Shrugged, part I, chapter VIII “Well, it’s like this, Miss Taggart,” said the delegate of the Union of Locomotive Engineers. “I don’t think we’re going to allow you to run that train.” Dagny sat at her battered desk, against the blotched wall of her office. She said, without moving, “Get out of here.” [p.216]…