Author: Adam Lee

I wrote recently about an attack on nontheist Congressman Pete Stark by a right-wing group calling themselves the Christian Seniors Association. The CSA’s spokesman James Lafferty, incensed by the idea that atheists think they have a right to be represented in Congress as if they were human beings like everyone else, complained at length about…

The seventh and last of the Virtues is the imperative toward justice. In general terms, the virtue of being just entails treating others as their actions merit – neither withholding from people what they deserve, nor giving them what they do not deserve. Acting justly is also a core part of the ethical system of…

Earlier today I was notified of a post on a blog titled Naked Pastor, “An Anti-Response to An Atheist“, which is a response to my essay on Ebon Musings, “The Theist’s Guide to Converting Atheists“. Below is the text of a comment I left on that site in response to the post and some other…

A few days ago, I received the following letter from U.S. Representative Pete Stark‘s office in acknowledgement of the contribution I made to him: These are wonderful sentiments that I can strongly support. I don’t think there is any necessity for Rep. Stark to be modest – in the current political climate, it does take…

When we were young, we looked up at the twinkling lights in the night sky and wondered. Most of them were immovable, fixed stars rising and setting in the same place every night as if pinned to the dome of the firmament. However, a very few of those lights were not so steady. Instead, they…

I have the privilege tonight of telling my readers about a wonderful project that’s gotten me feeling very excited. The author Dale McGowan has edited a book of essays for parents on the topic of raising a child without religion, titled Parenting Beyond Belief, to be released next month. This is a particularly important gap…

(Author’s Note: The following review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site’s policy for such reviews.) Summary: A fast-paced, entertaining, informative account of how past evolution has shaped our current living conditions. Recommended – but with one major caveat. One of the most common misconceptions about evolution is that it is a…

It has now been over a week since U.S. Representative Pete Stark announced his nontheism, and so far the reaction from the religious right has been surprisingly tepid. As far as I know, none of their heavyweights have responded – not frothing bigots like William Donohue, not advocates of intolerance like James Dobson, not the…

It occurred to me recently that I haven’t done a post poking fun at the CAP Alert site in quite a while. Well, I intend to correct that oversight right now. For your entertainment, here are some of the more laughably bizarre reasons why the CAP reviewer saw fit to deduct points from various movies:…

“With every advance in our thought the unity of the creative act, and the impossibility of tinkering with the creation as though this or that element of it could have been removed, will become more apparent.” —C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain In the above quote, C.S. Lewis argued that even an infinitely powerful deity…