Author: Adam Lee

I wrote last month about the ideological Turing test going on at Unequally Yoked, and the first round of voting is now beginning. Leah has posted 15 sets of answers to a standard set of questions, some of them written by genuine atheists, some written by Christians pretending to be atheists. Do you think you…

Does this remind anyone of anything? On Jan. 16, Warda was nearly raped. It happened in early afternoon, in the heart of central Cairo, in an elevator. A man with short black hair entered, Warda recalled. “We didn’t really look at each other; I was reading some messages on my phone,” she said. The elevator,…

“And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is…

The civil rights movement in America is often identified with Christianity. In large part this is because of the influence of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was a Baptist minister and worked the language and cadence of sermons into his most famous speeches – especially the famous paraphrase of the Book of Amos, “We…

Or rather, the last thing I’ll quote, because there were two comments on Friendly Atheist that sum up the matter perfectly: First: Misogyny shows not because of a guy being unaware that the circumstances in which he is asking people out are creepy. But the misogyny shows when people quickly jump into trying to make…

Regular readers may remember that last month, I let myself get talked into growing a beard as the result of a fundraising contest for Camp Quest. Well, I’m not about to suffer through an entire scorching summer with this extra insulation – but I’ve let it grow freely for a month now, and I think…

When it comes to demolishing irrational beliefs, the atheist community has done a brilliant job. But when it comes to rooting out sexism in our own ranks, we have a long way left to go. Witness the blowup that took place at a conference in Dublin last month, where Rebecca Watson of Skepchick gave a…

This essay was originally published on AlterNet. The propagandists of the religious right shout it aloud as their battle cry: “America is a Christian nation!” And in the trivial sense that ours is a nation populated mostly by Christians, this is true. But in the sense that they mean it, that Christianity was intended to…

In the wake of marriage equality’s victory in New York State last Friday, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler posted the following to Twitter: Now, fully 1 in 9 Americans will live in a state with legalized same-sex marriage. Our mission field is getting more complicated. On the surface, this is a strange statement.…

Summary: A hard-hitting and emotionally moving story of a religion reporter’s deconversion, despite a few lingering blind spots. Losing My Religion is the autobiography of William Lobdell, the religion reporter turned atheist whom I wrote about in 2007. I briefly mentioned the outline of his story in my previous post, but this book is a…