With tongue firmly planted in cheek, I like to refer to myself as an angry, militant, fundamentalist, arrogant New Atheist. Mainly this is an old response to the canard that gained popularity a few years ago about the alleged innate arrogance of nonbelievers in the wake of the ascendance of such figures as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. It seemed to me that the root of this idea was a knee-jerk response from religionists who had had it very...

I first came across Soraya Chemaly a few months ago when she posted an article titled “A Message to Girls About Religious Men Who Fear You” at The Huffington Post, a great piece to help empower young women into not being bullied or feeling threatened by religions and the men therein. I asked Soraya to do a guest post for me, but due to travel and family duties, she was unable to write an exclusive piece (I’ll make sure...

 I am on a blogging hiatus for a couple of weeks so I can concentrate on a larger project, which I’m sure you all will enjoy. In the meantime, I have invited a bunch super-smart authors, bloggers, vloggers, writers, clowns, and people with other interests to submit work here, just so the blog doesn’t stagnate. I hope you enjoy them. This piece was submitted by Kate Donovan, writer at Teen Skepchick and Friendly Atheist Blog....

 I wrote an exclusive guest piece over at Emily Dietle’s blog entitled “A Dose of Conscience” this is the opening two paragraphs, but if you want to read it in total I suggest you head on over there. If there was once thing I thought I could hold onto as a truth, it was that people in the atheist/skeptical communities were in tune with many of the things I hold dear. But it seems to me that recently some aspects of the...

Image source http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Roof_hafez_tomb.jpg  I am on a blogging hiatus for a couple of weeks so I can concentrate on a larger project, which I’m sure you all will enjoy. In the meantime, I have invited a bunch super-smart authors, bloggers, vloggers, writers, clowns, and people with other interests to submit work here, just so the blog doesn’t stagnate. I hope you enjoy them. This piece was...

Guest Post by Rohan Harris  I am on a blogging hiatus for a couple of weeks so I can concentrate on a larger project, which I’m sure you all will enjoy. In the meantime, I have invited a bunch super-smart authors, bloggers, vloggers, writers, clowns, and people with other interests to submit work here, just so the blog doesn’t stagnate. I hope you enjoy them. This piece was submitted by Rohan Harris of rohanharris.net. His...