by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 10, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Religion
Ken Burns to Evangelical Voters: ‘What Part of Donald Trump Reminds You of Jesus Christ?’ Donald Trump’s appeal to Evangelical voters is perplexing and bizarre, and it has earned the attention of more than one political observer. Samantha Bee dug...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 8, 2017 | Pseudoscience, Religion, Science
I am sorry but while the First Amendment protects your right to believe in anything you want it does not protect you from criticism for believing in something that is absolutely ridiculous and ignorant. As the physicist Brian Cox has said: —“The problem with today’s...
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 | Apr 23, 2017 | Religion
Evidence for Jesus is weaker than you might think Note: This story was co-authored with David Fitzgerald, author of ” Jesus: Mything in Action.” Before the European Enlightenment, virtually all New Testament experts assumed that handed-down stories about...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 17, 2017 | Religion, Science
Michael Shermer ” How Might a Scientist Think about the Resurrection? IMAGE ABOVE: The Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, Mechernich, Germany (near Köln), built 2005-2007 following the plans of the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. Photograph by Michael Shermer For the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 14, 2017 | Religion
Understanding (and Refuting) the Arguments for God Michael Shermer has made a career of skepticism – he is the founder of Skeptic, for one – but in his 2000 book, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, he does not come across as the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 8, 2017 | Religion, Science
I am reminded of a story I have often heard told even in religious contexts. A preacher was driving down a country road when he came upon the most beautiful farm he’d ever seen in his lifetime spent traveling rural roads. He could only compare it to a beautiful...
