Author: Adam Lee

The Case for a Creator, Chapter 1 The first chapter of Case opens with an anecdote from Strobel’s days as a journalist for the Chicago Tribune, a story from the 1970s when he went to West Virginia to cover a story of rural communities rioting over evolutionary content in their schools’ textbooks. In some cases…

In my third anniversary post, I discussed some of the directions I’d like to take Daylight Atheism in during this year. I mentioned that I’ve always admired Fred Clark (a.k.a. Slacktivist) for his methodical, page-by-page deconstruction of the Left Behind series from a progressive Christian viewpoint. It’s a very cool idea, and a successful idea,…

“If the Devil’s Time were above a thousand years ago, pronounced short, what may we suppose it now in our Time? Surely we are not a thousand years distant from those happy thousand years of rest and peace and (which is better) Holiness reserved for the People of God in the latter days; and if…

Cyrus Reed Teed, a.k.a. the Prophet Koresh. Public-domain image from Wikipedia. It seems that every religion has at least one signature bizarre belief: whether it be that the messiah is an American soldier who will return from across the ocean bringing marvelous cargo, or that human beings are possessed by the ghosts of murdered aliens,…

Today’s Poetry Sunday features the American poet Sara Teasdale. Like other female writers of the nineteenth century, she lived a quiet and reclusive life, yet was acclaimed in the wider world for compositions showing far greater skill and beauty than her seemingly limited perspective should have allowed. Unlike her predecessors, however, she lived to see…

The reliability of eyewitness accounts is one of the bedrock beliefs of our society. In ancient cultures – and in some modern cultures that still follow ancient laws – some crimes could only be proven by eyewitness testimonies. One of the most infamous examples was Pakistan’s Hudood Ordinances, which mandated that allegations of rape could…

It’s common for fundamentalist Christians to think of themselves as the moral guardians of our culture, a bulwark against the rampant sex and violence in the mass media. But this self-flattering caricature runs up against inconvenient reality: there is plenty of evidence which shows that Christians as a whole are every bit as drawn to…

Although the first hundred days of President Barack Obama’s term haven’t ended yet, this seems like a good time to examine his record in office so far and see how it’s lived up to his own campaign pledges and to freethinkers’ expectations. These past few months have been a roller-coaster ride – from the exhilaration…

In January, I wrote about how the Vatican had decided to lift the excommunication of Holocaust-denying bishop Richard Williamson. After a worldwide avalanche of criticism, the church backtracked somewhat on this decision: Williamson is still welcomed back, although he’s been ordered to recant his views, which to my knowledge he has not done. But last…

Welcome, new visitors and regular readers, to the 113th edition of the Carnival of the Godless here at Daylight Atheism! I last hosted this gathering of the godless all the way back in July 2006, for its 44th edition, and nearly three years later, we’re still going strong. In fact, the carnival has grown considerably…