Author: Adam Lee

One of the first posts on Daylight Atheism, “A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep“, was about the pathetic levels of Biblical knowledge in a nation that’s theoretically 85% Christian. Well, thanks to a widely reported new survey, we can add another fact to that picture: not only do Americans not know much about the…

by Brittany Meyer … Just in time for the Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice, the 10th Circuit declined an en banc review of a previous ruling that 14 large white crosses used as roadside memorials for fallen troopers on public land in Utah violated the Establishment Clause because it gave the appearance of endorsing Christianity. In…

I woke up at 3 AM earlier this week to see the lunar eclipse. Dressing in the dark, my wife and I went out into the freezing silence of the winter solstice to see the moon: a small disc high in the sky swallowed by the planet’s shadow, glowing coppery-red with the reflected light of…

Since ’tis the season for commercialism, shopping sprees and big-ticket purchases, I thought I’d write a post that I’ve had in mind for a long time. It’s less about atheism per se, more about rationalism and being aware of the ways our choices shape the world around us. We may scoff, and rightfully so, when…

A Review of When Atheism Becomes Religion, Part III As I’ve written before, Chris Hedges is a nihilist. He flatly denies the possibility of moral progress, and vehemently asserts that any efforts to improve humanity will inevitably end in mass slaughter and destruction. He says so bluntly at the beginning of his book: Those who…

I’ve mentioned in the past that as the Catholic church dwindles and ages, it’s increasingly having trouble finding enough people who want to join the priesthood, and it’s relying heavily on the few Catholic-majority countries remaining, such as Poland, that are net exporters of priests. At the time, I mused: Even former Catholic strongholds such…

The Language of God, Chapter 5 By B.J. Marshall The tagline of this books is “A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.” I’ve seen that the central thesis of the book is trying to harmonize religion and science, so I was surprised to find Collins spending a lot of time talking about how he mapped the…

I have a short update on the atheist ad campaign running on Fort Worth buses. In my last post, I mentioned that a coalition of city pastors were furious over the ads and tried to organize a boycott. (Would it help to tell them that this is how atheists feel all the time? Probably not.)…

Until a few days ago, I’d never heard of Drew Marshall, the host of an Ontario-based radio program that’s advertised as Canada’s most popular Christian talk show. But when I saw an interesting post about him on Facebook (more on that in a minute), I went and looked him up. From reading the bio on…

I realize this is the season for Christmas trees, candy canes and presents, not for jack-o’-lanterns, black cats and witches, but I can’t help pointing out that a rotting ghoul has crawled out of its grave and is sitting around leering at us. Unfortunately this isn’t the kind of creature that goes away if you…