Author: Adam Lee

Last year, I wrote about whether Christianity deserves the credit for abolishing slavery. I have some additional evidence on that topic I’d like to mention. I just finished reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the autobiography of the great American abolitionist. Born a slave in antebellum Maryland, Douglass taught himself to read at…

I’ve received another response to my essay “The Theist’s Guide to Converting Atheists“. This response, which can be viewed here, comes by way of an author calling himself Roq. I am, at heart, a simple person, so it’ll only take one thing for me to become an atheist. When science can create a mass hallucination…

I didn’t notice until recently that Narabelad, the apologist for Judaism whose claims I addressed in “The Jewish Prophecy of Exile“, has written a further reply to me. In this post, I’ll address it briefly. First, let me note that my correspondent has evidently conceded that his list of things that would make him an…

I’ve got a brief question for Julian Baggini, William Oddie, and everyone else – atheist or theist – who’s bemoaned the lively protests of Pope Benedict’s visit to the U.K.: Do you believe the pope is not guilty of helping to protect child abusers (and if so, how do you respond to this evidence) –…

Since I’ve written recently about the rapidly approaching failure of Harold Camping’s 2011 doomsday prediction, I thought it’d be amusing to take a look back at another prophetic misfire. Our case study is the website 2007Rapture.com, which for obvious reasons is now defunct – but the Internet Archive has snapshots that show how the author,…

You’ve no doubt heard by now about Pope Benedict’s visit to the U.K., where one of his first statements was an accusation that the Nazis were atheists. To be honest, it makes me worried for the old fellow. After all, he himself served in the Hitler Youth as a teenager, yet he doesn’t seem to…

The Language of God, Chapter 3 By B.J. Marshall Part 2 of this book, “The Great Questions of Human Existence,” covers topics of cosmology, life on earth, and unpacking the human genome. Chapter 3 begins by tackling cosmology, but Collins throws in a little prelude – a little homage to science. We should keep in…

Guest post by Scotlyn [Editor’s Note: Please welcome our newest guest author! Scotlyn is a long-time DA commenter who’s been writing some really superb and well-thought comments lately. I thought it’d be interesting to extend the opportunity to write a guest post and see what else she has to say, and I wasn’t disappointed.] I…

The Chaplain over at An Apostate’s Chapel posted about the latest poll by the Barna Group, which found that 1 in every 8 Americans is an ex-Christian. Meanwhile, about 3% of Americans were raised non-Christian but later converted. The Barna Group’s press release described their finding in these terms: “The study underscores that the spiritual…

In my recent post on creeping fundamentalism in Israel, I included a picture but didn’t explain why. I wanted to talk about it some more, because it seems to me that what it depicts is a possible constitutional violation, and I was hoping I could get opinions from people better versed in constitutional law than…