Our Wednesday Morning Cartoon

Cartoonist J. Bado has his own opinions about the supreme court’s latest ruling about prayer everywhere.

God is a Jerk: 3 More Questions To Ask A Believer

It would seem that God is behaving like quite the jerk by ignoring all those sick, starving children and allowing entire families to be put out on the street, but chooses to send an apartment manager to unlock the door of an inconvenienced resident.

Prayer: The Defeatist’s Best Friend

Let’s touch on prayer, and the effects (or non-effects) it has on a believer’s life. More specifically, let us discuss some of the misappropriations of who or what should actually get the credit for “answered prayers”.

Suppose God is a narcissist and revels in praise

When I was a child I would pray every night with my mother “God bless Aunt Mary, God bless Auntie Bellle, God bless……….”I knew there was a big guy up there in the sky and one day I called on him. I was eight years old and lying under an elm tree on a fine summer day.

Catholics Harass Teen Atheist Who Won Prayer Fight

A 16-year-old Rhode Island atheist has her heavily Roman Catholic town of 80,000 in an uproar after she successfully sued her school to take down a eight-foot-tall prayer that hung in the school auditorium for 49 years, reports the New York Times.

Lauren Scruggs recovering and God had nothing to do with it

The story of Lauren Scruggs’ accident is a terrible one. The very idea of walking face first into a turning airplane propeller makes one wince in sympathetic pain and fill with compassion for this beautiful girl and her caring but tortured family.

Thanksgiving: Saying grace “Atheist” style

Contrary to the beliefs of many of America’s Krazy Kristians, Thanksgiving is NOT a religious holiday. Regardless there is all that insistence on mumbling some sort of prayer, commonly known as “grace.” So where does that put us Atheists?

France to Muslims: No more public praying (video)

A ban on Muslim street prayers, a practice by Muslims unable to find space in mosques, has come into effect in Paris. Of course this made the Muslims very, very mad.

Pastor Perry Promises National Prayer Day

As president, Texas governor and pastor Rick Perry will institute a National Prayer Day to promote job growth.

To a blogger gone… MacDaddy

“Why,” I thought, “didn’t I visit his blog more often”?

An Atheist parable

I actually envy some of the comforts that the religious have that I never will. I have anxiety over this being the only life for me.