Author: Adam Lee

I’ve recently been reading Karen Armstrong’s A History of God, an enormously informative though often irritatingly naive account of the evolution of monotheism in the Abrahamic faiths. One thing that struck me while reading it is how religious grievances dating back centuries or even millennia continue to cause hatred, bloodshed, and violence today with virtually…

I have a new post now up on Dangerous Intersection, “Why I don’t trust Hillary Clinton“. This is an open thread. Comments and discussion are welcome.

Following up on my earlier post, the Secular Coalition for America has made good on its promise and has revealed the name of the first openly nontheistic member of the U.S. Congress: Democratic representative Pete Stark, a seventeen-term House member representing California’s 13th district. I didn’t expect a nontheist to be a supporter of George…

The sixth of the Virtues is humility. In many religious traditions, humility is considered the very highest of virtues, and while I think it is an important and desirable quality to practice, I wouldn’t go quite so far. Furthermore, as we’ll see, my idea of what constitutes humility differs somewhat from the theistic view. What…

On Tuesday night, after watching the lottery drawing (I didn’t win, alas – and I wished really hard for it, too!), I saw an ABC special about one José Luis de Jesus Miranda, a Puerto Rican man who has announced to the world that he is the second coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh.…

A brief update to pass along an exciting e-mail alert I received last night from the Secular Coalition for America: On Monday, March 12, the Secular Coalition for America, a national lobbying group representing Americans who do not hold a god-belief, will make history by announcing the name of the first open nontheist member of…

In October of last year, I posed the question: Daylight Atheism: The Book?, on whether it would be worth the effort to try to compile some of my writings into a form suitable for publication. The response, to my delight, was overwhelmingly positive, and that response combined with other reasons convinced me that this was…

In the previous exchange from their debate, Andrew Sullivan has declared that his faith in God is not based on any evidence whatsoever, and no imaginable evidence could cause him to change his mind about it. Sam Harris reacts with bemusement, as well he might: I now feel like a tennis player, in mid-serve, who…

Christianity’s relationship with the environmental movement has always been a rocky one. While some groups of Christians view protecting the planet to be a sacred imperative, others – an alarmingly large number of others – believe that God gave us the Earth to use and exploit in any way we deem fit, and since Jesus…

As the debate continues, Sam Harris responds to Andrew Sullivan’s contention that many of the fundamentalists he knows are compassionate, caring people who do many selfless good deeds for others: For instance, you claim that many fundamentalists are tolerant of dissent and capable of friendship with you despite their dogmatic views about sex. You also…