Author: Adam Lee

The last few months have been a rollercoaster ride for advocates of marriage equality in the United States. There was the bitter disappointment of Prop 8 passing in California in the 2008 elections, but soon after, it was assuaged in part by victories for marriage equality in Iowa and Vermont. Soon thereafter, Maine and New…

Both Greta and Hemant have commented on the full-page ad run by the Freedom from Religion Foundation in the latest issue of UU World, the magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Since I have a copy of that issue, I thought I’d say some things about it as well. The FFRF ad that ran in…

This week’s Poetry Sunday features a new author, the American poet Stanley Kunitz. In his long lifetime, he was one of America’s most renowned poets, winning, among other awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Medal of Arts, the Robert Frost Medal, and Harvard’s Centennial Medal. He served a term as Poet Laureate of…

Inspired by the always-inspiring Greta Christina and her two recent posts on the subject, I want to offer some thoughts on a topic I’ve rarely discussed on this blog: the intersection of atheism with issues of race and gender. I haven’t discussed this subject much because I don’t feel I have any real qualifications to…

There are couple of news items this week that I thought merited a brief mention. First, in the New Yorker, James Wood provides another piece of evidence for my theory that the only kind of atheists considered “respectable” are the ones who wish they were religious: What is needed is neither the overweening rationalism of…

In A Shattered Visage, a book-length emotional rant against atheism, Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias puts forth the following assertion: The words of Augustine are most appropriate: “You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee.” Or, as Pascal put it, “There is a godshaped vacuum in…

The Case for a Creator, Chapter 5 In discussing the kalam argument, William Lane Craig makes some points that touch on modern research in cosmology and physics, so I’ll address those. He begins with the premise that “whatever begins to exist has a cause”: “It seems metaphysically necessary that anything which begins to exist has…

One could argue that atheism leads to immorality. With no God-given commandments, the atheist pretty much has to make up moral standards as he or she goes along… The philosopher John Locke – one of the intellectual forebears of American democracy – once said that atheists can’t ultimately be trusted in their promises and commitments,…

Of all the evil verses in the Bible, some of the worst must be the ones in which God orders his chosen people to slaughter and utterly exterminate the Canaanites who were living in the promised land, commanding them to kill men, women and children and to show no mercy to anyone under any circumstances.…

I wanted to write a quick post to thank all the Daylight Atheism readers who were able to attend yesterday’s meetup in Pasadena. We got a great crowd together, and it was a thrilling experience to meet you all and to finally be able to match names with faces, and I’m greatly appreciative for the…