Religion The doctrine of "Separation of Church and State" in America was meant to protect religion, not prevent it
"In God We Trust"
"What's next?" Christian nationalists cry in the wake of the "Under God" ruling; "Will they take "In God We Trust" off our money?" It ought to happen
"Under God" Overruled
The "under God" part of the public school Pledge of Allegiance is clearly unconstitutional, but only the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals could say so
Ten Commandments
Amid boos and chants and civil disobedience, fifty-by-29 inches of Old Testament bronze on the courthouse in West Chester disappeared behind 50-by-29 inches of blank plastic
Faith
Many Christians seem to be like the woman Joseph Addison described, who, "is so good a Christian that whatever happens to herself is a trial, and whatever happens to her neighbors is a judgment"
Polytheism
In our time monotheism is often considered a higher form of religion than polytheism. Individual monotheistic worshipers, however, usually worship a particular form of their god and not his causal, unmanifest, formless aspect
Swords for Skeptics
"The foundation of morality is to ... give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge." -T.H. Huxley
Science
Charles Darwin didn't undermine Christianity. He only undermined liberal Christianity. Those who took the Bible and only the Bible as the sole truth weren't seeing its contradictions before Darwin came along, and they weren't moved from their rock by some Quaker scientist's new theory.
Robert G. Ingersoll
He held the odd status of beloved agnostic in a Christian land, in part, because this public man was so clearly living an honest, useful and loving life
Ingersoll Quotes
"God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god."
Arguing with God
If you must debate Xtians, be alert for some of their favorite logical fallacies. The idea of a logical fallacy is neither Xtian nor pagan nor secular. It's something like a wrong turn in the map of thinking
My Congressman
My own Congressman, U.S. Rep. Joseph R. Pitts, was all set to talk to a church group this weekend, but some godless liberals shamed him out of it.
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