Author: Adam Lee

I just have to boast: I’m on TV! Well, sort of, anyway. Daylight Atheism commenter RiddleOfSteel has brought to my attention this clip, in which Richard Dawkins is interviewed for the Canadian TV program The Agenda. As we all know by now, my essay “The New Ten Commandments” is quoted in Dr. Dawkins’ book The…

For whatever reason, I don’t get as much entertaining e-mail from religious nuts as some other atheist bloggers I know of. If I were inclined to flatter myself, I’d say it’s because they’re silenced by the devastating power of my arguments. More likely, it’s just because most of the notorious crazies haven’t come across my…

Last month’s post on the morality of abortion generated – as one might have expected – a wide variety of impassioned responses. Happily, the debate remained mostly civil, which is a rarity when it comes to this issue and one that’s entirely due to the thoughtful, rational commenters here at Daylight Atheism. There were several…

I’ve put up a new post on Dangerous Intersection, “The traditional media is dying“. This is an open thread. Comments and discussion are welcome.

I’d like to write today about two stereotypes of atheism that are common among some quarters of religious apologists: that we are moral nihilists, recognizing no such concepts as right and wrong; and that we are Satanists who worship, or at least admire, the adversary power of monotheism. The atheists who advocate these concepts, rare…

To Christian believers, Jesus of Nazareth was God incarnate and therefore possessed of omnipotent power. According to the Bible, he backed up this claim by doing many miracles while on earth – casting out demons, healing the sick and the crippled, calming storms, walking on water, producing food, and raising the dead. It would seem…

Last summer, I wrote a three-part post series, “Why I Am Not a Libertarian“, which explained my disagreement with this political philosophy. However, I’ve realized that despite writing an essay addressing the crimes of communist regimes as they reflect on atheists, I’ve never written a post on my differences with communism per se. This one…

I’ve posted a new essay over on Dangerous Intersection, a review of Glenn Greenwald’s latest book, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics. This is an open thread. Comments and discussion are welcome.

The Learning Annex is a privately owned continuing-education school in New York. As a resident of New York City, I can testify to its success – its kiosks of free course catalogs are on nearly every street corner in Manhattan. It was founded in 1980 by Bill Zanker, who sold the company in 1991 and…

“And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it.” —Matthew 16:18 (RSV) The biblical metaphor of the church built on rock is interwoven throughout Christianity, used as a metaphor for the presumed stability and eternality of the faith.…