Author: Adam Lee

If you’ve been around the atheist blogosphere for very long, you’re probably acquainted with Dennis Markuze, a notorious net kook who’s been spamming atheist blogs, forums, bulletin boards, wikis, social networking sites, and every other website he finds out about with insane, nonsensical rants about Nostradamus, 9/11 and his various other obsessions. He’s been at…

I don’t usually say these sorts of things about Republicans, but good for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is defending his pick of a Muslim for a state judgeship, saying critics of a lawyer who represented suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are “ignorant” and “crazies”. …”This Shariah…

[Editor’s Note: The last dispatch I received in this ongoing series was particularly bleak. As if on cue, I got another message the other day, this one apparently originating from a very different, and much rosier, future. I get the strong impression that these two possible worlds are, in some manner, competing against each other.]…

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Yesterday, someone calling himself Rev. Skeens posted the following comment. I rejected it since it had no perceptible connection to the post it was submitted under, but then I had second thoughts. Granted that this is beginner-level stuff and hardly challenging, but it’s been a while since we honed our debating skills on an actual…

Some scattered thoughts to contemplate on a Saturday morning: • Earlier this year, my post on urban agriculture drew some spirited disagreement. Now there’s a study from Ohio State University which concludes that Cleveland could supply all its own produce, poultry and honey if the many vacant lots in the shrinking, post-industrial city were converted…

One of my earliest posts on Daylight Atheism was about the torrent of angry, obscene, hateful messages that inevitably greets any atheist who speaks out in public. We’re seeing this happen again, this time aimed at Blair Scott of American Atheists, who recently appeared on Fox News to discuss that group’s lawsuit against a cross…

“Nobody has the right to harm others. Yet, homosexuality is a harmful behavior. It is obviously harmful to its practitioners — the clinical evidence for all manner of psychological and physical problems created by acting on homosexual impulses is well established. Homosexuality is destructive to self because it uses the human body in ways that…

This essay was originally published on AlterNet. If atheists were as politically organized as the religious right, we could accomplish a world of good in combating theocracy and standing up for human rights and secularism. But whenever an atheist political alliance is proposed, the objection is inevitably raised that "atheists don’t all agree," and that…

We saw a lot of churches and cathedrals in Spain, but the Cathedral of Valencia could claim one mark of distinction that some of the much larger and more impressive ones couldn’t. Namely, it’s the final resting place of that most precious Christian relic, the Holy Grail itself. To see that and more, click to…