Author: Adam Lee

I forgot to post this one along with the other translations that went up recently, but I’m happy to add that Ebon Musings now has a Portuguese translation of “All Possible Worlds“. Thanks to Petrucio for the effort (and the pictures).

I never thought I’d say this, but I think the Catholic church is actually relieved to be dealing with a scandal that, for once, doesn’t involve priests raping children with the protection of their higher-ups. How else to explain their abject contrition over the discovery that, in Australia, they abducted tens of thousands of children…

The other day, I came across an essay titled “Staining the Silence” on Vox Nova, a Catholic group blog. The author, Mark Gordon, writes about how his son was deployed to combat in Iraq in 2007, how he feared for his safety as any parent would, and how at first he prayed every day for…

I first saw this on Google+ and, given the flame wars that have roiled atheism lately, I thought it was worth sharing. Who knows but that it may help some people to see these issues presented in a different context. You may have heard of Wil Wheaton (and if you don’t, and you consider yourself…

[Editor’s Note: After the two strange messages I received earlier this year, I thought the wormhole, or whatever it was, had closed forever. Evidently not. This past week, as fighting over the debt limit reached a fever pitch, I found a new e-mail from the future in my inbox. Elaborate hoax? Frightening warning of what…

Following up my post analyzing the results of Unequally Yoked’s ideological Turing test, this one lists how I voted on each of the atheist candidates. I took notes as I was going through them, trying to flag what stood out to me as evidence of genuineness or fakery. As you can see, some of my…

The ideological Turing test that was running at Unequally Yoked has concluded, and if you’re like me, you couldn’t wait to find out how we did. Well, the results are in: here’s the answer key (some real surprises there!), and here’s how the voting shook out for the atheist round and for the Christian round.…

I’ve often made mention of the Secular Student Alliance, an outstanding organization that supports atheist student groups on high school and college campuses throughout the country. Not only does the SSA offer literature, monetary grants and hands-on assistance in organizing, they also stand up for atheist students’ rights when bigoted school administrators try to stop…

I’ve mentioned in the past that Ireland, which gave the Catholic church more privileges and greater deference than almost any other country in Europe, was rewarded for its devotion with one of the highest per-capita rates of child rape by priests than any other nation else in the world. That scandal continues to unspool, and…

So, I feel a bit embarrassed about this, since I’m a computer guy in my day job and all. But my home machine is experiencing a very annoying problem that’s got me stumped, and I was hoping that the Internet, being the source of all human knowledge, can offer me some advice. I know I…