Skeptophilia

There are many things I don't get about religion, but one of the ones I understand least is the idea of intercessory  or petitionary  pr...

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...

It's getting to the point that I'm not entirely sure whether the hyperreligious types here in the United States might be engaging in...

One of the inevitable downsides of a blog such as this one is that I tend to focus on negative stuff.  People who believe (and peddle) nonse...

New from the "You Really  Think The World Works That Way?" department, we have the edifying story of the guy who was in a fiery ca...

Buoyed by the success last month of Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Archbishop Emeritus of Guadalajara, who conducted an exorcism of the ent...

Most of you probably know that the United States Supreme Court is likely to announce a decision on the federal legalization of same-sex marr...

Is it just me, or do a lot of high-profile members of the evangelical wing of Christianity seem to have lost their minds lately? I mean, i...

In the latest from the Quick Comeuppance department, we have news that only three days after the Supreme Court sided 5-4 with the town of Gr...

Yesterday there was a story in News24 , a media outlet in South Africa, that a Lichtenburg man, Nelson Thabo Modupe, has submitted a bill to...

Many years ago, when I lived in Seattle, I was intermittently part of an amateur theater group.  I had several minor roles, but then finally...

Today we have a rather ironic story out of Brazil . Cabaret owner Tarcilia Bezerra, in the city of Fortaleza, wanted to expand his busines...

There are many things I don't get about religion, but one of the ones I understand the least is the idea of intercessory prayer. The b...