Matt Slick of the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministery (CARM) posted 31 questions for atheists, and I couldn’t help but submit my answers to them.

Manama: A court in Saudi Arabia has dropped the charge of sexual assault against the father of Luma, the five-year-old daughter he had beaten to death.

In the months since the Supreme Court’s decision to make marriage equality the law, conservative Christian thinkers have followed two tracks. On the one hand, writers like Rod Dreher and Ross Douthat have used the language of war, battle, and struggle as a call to retrenchment. If we just went back to what the Bible intended for marriage and sexuality, in their thinking, Christianity might be able to steer itself back toward a central place in American culture and morality.

The view from 2050.

The separation of church and state is a cornerstone of the United States’ political structure. From the First Amendment’s guarantee that no political process can “respect an establishment of religion” to Supreme Court verdicts calling officially-sponsored prayer in public schools unconstitutional, this country has institutionalized a variety of legislature based on our Founding Fathers’ separatist rhetoric. 

Shortly after my wife and I started dating, I knew I wanted to marry her. I’d been sitting next to her in church every Sunday, so there was no reason for her to assume I wasn’t a believer. But I knew I couldn’t enter an engagement, much less a marriage, on false pretenses. If it was going to be a big deal, it needed to be a big deal right then, before we got engaged.

I was really enjoying the first few pages of this book. Keller started out on a high note, exposing the increasing polarization of current public discourse. This is a problem I’ve discussed in my own ways several times before. The culture wars in America have reached a fever pitch, and each side of the divide seems convinced that his team will soon defeat the other.

A Facebook page claiming to be run by banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team has posted a list of targets that includes the names of 14 bloggers and secular writers.

A PROFESSOR believes he has finally laid bare the psychology behind religion, claiming that people only believe in God to satisfy their basic human desires.

Senator Hatch attacks secularism in the United States under the guise of "religious liberty."

Thanks to Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and Cardinal Vincent Nichols for their help with this week’s script.

The first in a series of videos covering different Biblical topics. In 2007 I finished a verse-by-verse deconstruction of the Sermon on the Mount (hosted at wiki.ironchariots.org). This video covers most of the content in that article with a few additional remarks. You don't have to know a lot about the Bible to have a conversation about it, because you're free to ask questions of the person advocating for it. But if you're going to have a discussion...

While apologists create mendacious claims of the “New Atheist” threat that is persecuting Muslims – very little attention is given to how atheists have been a persecuted minority for centuries

This is the introduction to Brian Dalton's new ten part series, The God Distraction: I don't care if God exists, and neither should you.

Does science move us toward or away from God? A debate between Matt Dillahunty and Jon Morrison. Filmed in Red Deer, AB, October 17th, 2015. Sponsored by Alberta Secular Conference, Society of Edmonton Atheists and Living Stones Church.

"Sometimes people have to hit rock bottom before they finally feel and accept the love and reality of God, and for many nonbelievers at the end of days, losing their loved ones or watching them disappear will indeed be their rock bottom." Consider what the implication of this idea is from the perspective of someone trying to persuade another person to believe as they do. They are admitting that it will take a state of utter desperation before these ideas will seem acceptable.

Comfort is back in the news as he and his followers make fun of the Hindu religion because a statue of Ganesh fell on some devotees in India, killing one and injuring three.

It’s easy to dismiss all of this as the fevered ramblings of an obscure county clerk – and clearly that’s what they are. Davis, after all, doesn’t really matter. She’s a thrice-married legacy hire in Kentucky who won a few minutes of fame but accomplished nothing in the long run. What’s scary, however, is that Davis isn’t alone.

In his introduction of this young man, Perkins likened FFRF to the Taliban: “Those who want to eradicate any reference to god or exercise of religious freedom from the public square. And in Liberty South Carolina, … The Freedom From Religion Foundation, kind of the Atheist Taliban, they came there and they came after the school board because they had prayer before a school board meeting…”

There are some ID proponents who attempt to do what Jonathan McLatchie describes. The most notable is Bill Dembski who claims to have developed a method to distinguish things that are designed from things that arose naturally. His schtick is information theory and computer science. Nobody believes that Bill Dembski can actually tell whether bacterial flagella were designed or evolved and his arguments have been thoroughly dissected and refuted by experts in the field of information science.