Is the universe perfect?

Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it? I do not believe…

A Surgeon General’s prescription

The love required to build community must not be reserved only for close family and friends…

The clip that destroyed my atheism

A fellow traveler in these parts offered a video tagged “This one clip destroyed my atheism.”…

Now that’s truly nonsense

I saw an article suggesting you can trick Google’s Gemini into interpreting totally bogus idioms like…

Hosanna to the Prince of Light

Hosanna to the Prince of Light, That clothed himself in clay, Entered the iron gates of…

An atheist’s faith

Believers sometimes say that being an atheist requires faith; I’ve even read that it takes more…

El

Reading the Bible has convinced many of us that YHWH is a jerk. Christianity teaches that…

More stoner ontology

I pointed out in a recent OP that the chance of any randomly selected moment being…

Love

I was raised by Christian parents. They taught me that love is the core message of…

Stoner ontology

Why is there something rather than nothing?  I like that question, though not for the same…

I was an evangelical Christian for 35 years – until my transgressive big sister gave me the courage to break free

My sister Dorothy Porter was a bohemian gay poet; I was a respectable church handmaiden. But…

Thou shalt not steal

Some of our Christian commentators have argued for the existence of “objective morality,” i.e., that what…