Author: Adam Lee

As regular readers might remember, I got married last May. Well, I’m fast approaching my first anniversary (holy cow, it’s been almost a year already?!), and MissCherryPi and I are planning to go on a trip to Spain later this month, the week of May 22, to celebrate. Since I’ll likely have very limited internet…

The Language of God, Chapter 11 By B.J. Marshall Aside from summarizing the points he’s made in previous chapters, Collins uses this final chapter as his last chance to be a Christian apologist, but he surprisingly leaves the door open for other options. First, I feel compelled to highlight Collins’ honesty. He states that, after…

Last night, I made my debut as a speaker for the Secular Student Alliance, appearing before the atheist student group at Columbia University to discuss the history of church-state separation. It was a short talk, about 20 minutes with Q&A, which suited me just fine for my first foray into public speaking. But I’m very…

As we all know, Ayn Rand is the greatest genius in the history of the human race, and her book Atlas Shrugged is her highest achievement and therefore the highest achievement of our entire species. Thanks to her, we’ve learned that sheer determination can surmount any obstacle, up to and including the laws of thermodynamics,…

A few months ago, I mentioned the FFRF’s “Out of the Closet” billboard campaign, an effort to put a human face on atheists with ads showing that we’re normal, friendly people like everyone else. Today, I’m pleased to announce that the FFRF has expanded this project with a virtual billboard campaign on their website, allowing…

Yesterday, I came across a story that was so appalling I had to write about it. It shows the true depths of the Christian right’s hatred for gay and lesbian people, and the lengths they’re willing to go to – up to and including defying U.S. law – in the name of that hatred. (HT:…

We atheists are nothing if not argumentative, and the latest argument is over whether an atheist can or should participate in “interfaith” charitable work. Chris Stedman, a member of the humanist chaplaincy at Harvard, asserts that “we must actualize our commitments to justice and compassion” by participating in interfaith projects as often as possible. Ophelia…

Today is Easter Sunday, the day when Christians celebrate Jesus’ supposed resurrection from the tomb. But though they believe this holiday commemorates a unique and singular event, their timing is suspicious. As you may have noticed, Easter is very close (making some allowances for calendrical drift) to the vernal equinox, the first day of spring.…

A while back, I put a social media widget from AddThis on the site (the “Bookmark/Share This” link at the bottom of each post). I’ve been checking its analytics and found that it hardly gets any use at all, so I think it’s about time to terminate that experiment. However, I haven’t decided what to…

This year, there’s an interesting calendrical coincidence: Today is both Earth Day and Good Friday. That being so, I thought it would prove enlightening to compare these two holidays and the messages they respectively send to their practitioners. One of the holidays on this date is to commemorate the gory death of a Jewish mystic…