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Some days I really feel sorry for my Christian friends, who are (one and all), logical, thoughtful, and intelligent. The reason I say this...

As an example of the general principle that there is nothing that is so weird that someone can't respond to it in such a way as to make ...

Dear Readers: Next week I'm going to take a brief hiatus from Skeptophilia  -- so my next post will be Monday, February 27.  Keep send...

One of the human tendencies I find the hardest to comprehend is the bafflement some people feel when they find out that there are people wh...

Happy Halloween!  The day that little children are rewarded for wandering around in the dark wearing plastic masks with improperly lined-up ...

I'm a little concerned that the next president of the United States might be either delusional or else an outright liar. I know this s...

I'm going to make a radical suggestion, here. If you make a prediction, and what you are predicting fails to materialize, there is som...

It hasn't been a good week for reasonable, moderate Christians. Which, allow me to point out, the majority of them are.  Even the ones...

I suppose that I'm an optimist at heart. I always live in hope that people will see reason.  Regardless of what illogical and counterf...

You know it's gonna be a surreal day when Pat Robertson starts making sense. Yup.  The same guy who said that the Haitian earthquake a...

Last week, I commented that politics was the only venue where you could make a statement that was demonstrably false, continue to defend it,...