Author: Adam Lee

This essay was previously published on AlterNet. In a campaign speech in September, Rick Perry hit upon some familiar Republican themes: Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, in an appeal to evangelical voters, said “Christian values” and not “a bunch of Washington politicians” should be the touchstone guiding how Americans conduct their lives. …”America is going…

Charities that depend on donations and fund-raising to survive have it hard enough in the best of times. But in this depressed economy, it must be more difficult than ever. The obvious conclusion, I would think, is that if you represent a charity and a donor gets in touch offering to give you a lot…

My friends, I have to confess an unpardonable lapse of judgment. I have some very bad news to deliver, and what’s worse, I forgot to tell you until now, when it’s almost too late! Please, let me explain. As you may recall, the brave and righteous Mr. Harold Camping previously predicted that the Rapture would…

My previous post, “The Blinding Fog of Religious Moderation“, drew some criticism from people who felt that I was unjustly lumping moderate believers together with fundamentalists. So, in this post, I’m going to try (again) to illustrate why I find even moderate religious beliefs to be wrong-headed, by means of an analogy. I’d like to…

As regular readers know, I’ve devoted considerable time to writing about the child-molestation scandal engulfing the Catholic church. The core of this story isn’t that there are child abusers within the ranks of the clergy, but that their superiors within the church have consistently enabled and protected them by hushing up their crimes, failing to…

One of the major changes that’s come with the new site is that here, every post has to have an accompanying image. I’m not complaining – I had always meant to have more pictures on the old Daylight Atheism, I think they make a site more interesting and engaging – but since I didn’t have…

I got this e-mail from a reader, which I was asked to pass along in the hope of getting some advice: I was raised in an Evangelical household and most of my friends and family from the early part of my life are Christians of some variety or another. They know I’m an atheist and…

Guest post by Samantha Eliza Benten Back in May (when the world ended… remember?), the blighted hopes of those looking forward to a worldwide blight reminded me of the “disappointment” experienced by the Millerites over 150 years ago. In a book I was originally assigned for a college class (Eyewitness to America: 500 Years of…

My recent post on the godlessness of the Constitution has attracted some attention. Over the weekend, I came across a reply from another of Big Think’s bloggers: Peter Lawler, a professor of government and international studies at Berry College and a former member of President Bush’s Council on Bioethics, whose blog is Rightly Understood. Prof.…

The author Sam Harris was, to my knowledge, the first of the New Atheists to make a novel and important observation about the way religious privilege operates in our society. Religious moderates talk a good game about peace, democracy, freedom of conscience, equal rights for women and minorities, and so on. But when push comes…