But I have a fundamental problem with creationists, and religious people in general. I’m from Québec, which, for the record, is the largest province of Canada, and the territory with the lowest church attendance ratings in North America by a significant margin. I couldn’t say I’ve always been an atheist, but I’ve never been a [...]

About a month ago I came upon a stunning realization: almost all of my friends are atheists.

Coming out as an atheist today is often compared with coming out as a homosexual in terms of the stresses involved in finding acceptance among ones peers and society in general. What if you are both gay and an atheist? Does that mean that you have two coming outs to endure? Perhaps it all depends [...]

It’s hard to know where to begin but I guess I’ll start by talking about my parents, both of whom are Roman Catholics and very devout. So devout in fact that my father actually wanted to be a priest and would have been if his parents could afford to send him to school. In those [...]

On Tuesdays this academic quarter at my college I have one and a half hours between my morning seminar and my afternoon class. I usually go down to the student center to have lunch but the past two weeks I decided instead to sit down at a table in a quieter part of campus to [...]

When Atheism opens your mind you start seeing things as they really are, and see the Bible turn into nothing more than a comic book.

Today on my college campus there was a small group of Christian preachers, well, preaching to students passing by. By the time my friend and I approached them there was already a decent crowd formed around them - mostly people just standing there and listening. Neither my friend nor I like to pass up the [...]