Author: Adam Lee

The blog Ungodly News has created a whimsical periodic table of atheism, and I was surprised and pleased to find out that I’m on it: (click for larger version) I’m an actinide, if you can’t find me – one of the green rows on the bottom, labeled as “The Wicked of the Web”. I’d never…

Our third day in Spain included a stopover in Córdoba, where we saw that city’s main cultural treasure: the Great Mosque of Córdoba, a U.N. World Heritage site that’s been in existence in various forms since the year 600 CE. It’s switched from Christian to Islamic control and back again several times, following the ebb…

My guest blogger alumnus, Leah of Unequally Yoked, has proposed a very interesting challenge for Christians and atheists alike which she calls the “ideological Turing test“: One of the greatest gifts of my time at Yale has been living, writing, and arguing in a community of smart people with whom I fiercely disagree… The imitation…

And tomorrow is a brand new day. Congratulations, New York! EDIT: It seems appropriate to repost these photos, which I took in 2009 at a rally in Union Square for the victory we had tonight: And because really, how can you not:

Recently, a long-time reader (thanks, Stacey!) sent me an e-mail with a link to this wrenching story, about a married couple chronicling the grief and anger they’ve been feeling since their daughter was stillborn in late 2009. By their own account, this tragedy happened in part because they put their trust in irrational thinking and…

Last week, the legal news service TrustLaw released a poll of the most dangerous countries for women. Based on a survey of 213 experts on women’s issues from around the world, the poll ranked countries on the basis of six categories: health threats, sexual violence, non-sexual violence, cultural or religious factors, lack of access to…

Since the beginning, I’ve resisted having paid ads on Daylight Atheism. But I’m wondering if the time has come to change that, and I’d like to know what readers think of the idea. I’ve been thinking about this because, lately, I’ve been getting a more-than-usual number of e-mails from strangers who want me to promote…

Through some odd stroke of coincidence, when I was in San Francisco earlier this year, I encountered more than the usual amount of religious nuttiness. I’ve already written about the woman who gets divine communications in God’s actual handwriting. There were also Scientologists handing out pamphlets on a street corner, advertising something called the “Purification…

More pictures from my Spanish trip. Click the link below to see:

As regular readers may remember, when our team of underdog bloggers triumphed last month in a fund-raising contest for Camp Quest, I vowed to grow a beard so as to prove that PZ Myers wasn’t the only atheist overlord out there who could boast of manly facial hair. Well, that experiment is underway as we…