by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 26, 2017 | Atheism, Religion
Don’t Inject Your Religious Beliefs Into My Grief This is a guest post by Julie Stahl. She is a writer who lives on the central coast of California. This piece originally appeared in the September, 2016 issue of Freethought Today and is reprinted here with...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 18, 2017 | Atheism, Religion
NonStampCollector with one of the key reasons I am NOT a Christian Brought up a Catholic from a very young age I think I was always moving away from belief in Christianity or any religion for that matter it just took years, no decades to throw out all the crap. It was...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 11, 2017 | Atheism, Religion
Given that God is a man-made construct I found Dennis Prager’s conservative and Judeo-Christian apologetics one big huge...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 9, 2017 | Atheism, Religion
The Great God Debate – Michael Shermer, Dan Barker & Peter Millican Part 1 The Great God Debate – Michael Shermer, Dan Barker & Peter Millican Part...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 25, 2016 | Atheism, Religion
How Non-Christians Know There’s No War on Christmas (A woman holding a cup of coffee and walking past window displays that show nativity scenes and Santa Claus) Text: You know the deal with the tooth fairy, right? Collects lost teeth, replaces them with coins?...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 24, 2016 | Atheism, Religion
Ten Contradictions Theists Just Can’t Stop Making Talking with theists about religion sometimes – and by sometimes I mean almost always – feels like Groundhog Day, a painful and monotonous slog that simply travels the same territory over and over and...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 26, 2016 | Atheism, Cosmology & Astronomy, Religion, Science
This is one of the reasons I dismiss religion and religions that see man (i.e. homo sapiens) as god’s special creation and focus. As I’ve written elsewhere before,…Francis Crick the great molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist who was one...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 13, 2016 | Atheism, Critical Thinking, Science, Skepticism
Atheism is a conclusion, not a belief. Science is a method, not a faith. Skepticism is critical thinking, not a...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 29, 2016 | Atheism
Spinoza was the “entry drug” that helped me become an atheist… —”Spinoza’s philosophy is founded upon a rejection of the God that informs the Abrahamic religions. His God lacks all the psychological and moral characteristics of a transcendent,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 22, 2015 | Atheism, Religion
One of the biggest complaints I hear from theists is that I’m intolerant of their religion. Quite often, these people act as if it’s a personal attack on them specifically. I am indeed intolerant of religion, but it isn’t my fault that these people can’t understand...
