Skeptophilia

Maybe ten years ago I got in a protracted argument over the phone with a local man.  The subject was an online social media group he'd s...

Let me start out with a reality check: despite what the Religious Right and the pseudo-pundits on Fox News  want you to believe, there is no...

Of all the worrisome trends I'm seeing in the world in general, and the United States in particular -- and there are a lot to choose fro...

There's another war brewing over the idea of freedom of religion, this time in the state of Tennessee. Turns out, Bledsoe County Schoo...

In a move that many are characterizing as the latest end-run past anti-discrimination laws by the extremely religious, Georgia's Senate ...

There's a bizarre battle going on right now in the state of Florida. First, a Christian group was allowed to hand out bibles to studen...

Yesterday, we saw one example of mistaking correlation for causation -- that being a skeptic (or materialist, or rationalist) is why two pro...

I wonder what it is about the mere existence of atheists that is so terrifying to some Christians. Now, right up front, I want to emphasiz...

There is something going in on North Carolina right now that I bet a lot of you haven't heard about.  It's gotten barely any press c...

Well, it's happened again.  Another person has refused to handle a piece of official paper because it was stamped with the number 666. ...