As I promised yesterday, here are my responses to some of the recent comments I haven’t been able to keep up with.
I received my first correction! After reading, America In Decline, Skysinger clarified for me that we do not have a cure for polio, just a vaccination. Well, that makes sense, doesn’t it? [...]
After reading the books I cited for Civil Rights Day to the kids, my 8-year-old son, Blake asked, “How come all the heroes are black?”
Silence filled the space that my loss for words left. I stared at Blake for a minute. What other heroes have I introduced to him? Rosa Parks died [...]
A few years ago, when my parents were grasping to understand why I left religion (okay, they are still grasping), I explained to them the issues I had with the Bible. I described my opinion that the gods have all been a manifestation of mankind’s need for a controlling power, an explanation for the [...]
Pat Robertson is spewing radical god-speak again. This time he’s leveled his judgments against a man suffering on his deathbed, Israeli Prime Minsister, Ariel Sharon. As usual, Pat thinks he speaks for God when he blames Sharon’s stroke on the decision to “divide God’s land.” Pat referred to the Bible, saying it [...]
Although many religionists assume that secularism leads to nihilism, the opposite is true in most cases. Most of us who don’t believe in religion, or even in gods or an afterlife, for that matter, find great meaning in the short existence that we have. As soon as our children are old enough to [...]
I love Christmas. I know, not all secularists celebrate this holiday. Some choose to celebrate nothing. Some choose the Solstice, with the Solstice tree, a feast, and gift-giving, which you could say was the original Christmas, observed hundreds of years before Jesus was born.
Israel and I both grew up with Christmas. [...]
When I was about 8 years old on a family campout I made a new friend. I envied her name, Kareena, and her forties-era look, which was like an eight-year-old Lois Lane.
Kareena and I bonded when we met outside my family’s pop-up trailor. We would become long-term pen pals. After we sealed [...]
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