How do you feel, to live in a religious country, where atheism could lead you to jail for 5 years?. Well, I live the first 23 years of my life in such country, Indonesia. Indonesia is a country with a population of 222 million people, and about 90% are Moslems. Its officially not an Islamic [...]

I ran across the following comments elsewhere on the web:
An atheist has to believe what he does irrationally.
Here is why: if there is no creative intelligence responsible for existence, then all existence, life, mind, and reason itself are the result of mindless processess.
Science can not explain the origin of existence…the Big Bang for example only [...]

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 [...]

My friend Atheist Under Ur Bed just picked up this story today, which I found rather interesting but also disturbing at the same time:
New Video Game’s Objective: Stop The Spread Of Religion By Going Back And Killing The Founders (Lindsey Ward/NBC Affiliate WSLS-TV; June 2)
A video image released by the computer game’s creator showing an [...]

In my last post, “Playing Around With Words,” I linked to a news report in which a University professor in Canada used the term “agtheist,” which seems to be a combination of agnostic and atheist, to describe himself. Now that I think about it (and as someone else has suggested to me), he probably should [...]

One thing that I have found interesting, but ultimately frustrating, is the endless debates over what words like atheism and agnosticism really mean. Some people have tried to sidestep these debates by coining new terms to replace them, such as nontheist or bright, or insisting on terms like rationalist or freethinker. Well, according to a [...]

In my previous post I wrote, in part, about a Christian Evangelical student who approached me on campus for the purpose of reading to me a pamphlet, or an evangelical tool, that is suppose to help convince me to turn my life over to Christ (first you need to convince me why I should believe [...]

Former evangelical minister John Loftus was recently profiled for the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel in this article:
Ex-preacher says goodbye to God
John Loftus left his faith, but he hasn’t stopped preaching.
Loftus, 53, grew up in Fort Wayne, ministered for 14 years in several area churches, including Christ’s Church at Georgetown, then started backing out of [...]

Joe E. Holman is a former Church of Christ minister who preached Christianity for nine years but is now an atheist and blogs about his atheism at ministerturnsatheist.org. Here you can read his de-conversion story, “From Gospel Preacher to Good Atheist,” which details how he initially became a deeply committed evangelical, his life preaching the [...]

In my last post I wrote about a notable atheist and ancient history scholar named Richard Carrier. The following is an excerpt from Richard’s own atheist testimonial, first published on the Secular Web, which is interesting because Richard dabbled in some ancient Chinese religious philosophies before becoming an atheist. Enjoy.
From Taoist to Infidel
My experiences with [...]