Fighting Theocracy at Harvard
On Saturday last week (04.02.2011) I spoke at a counter-protest (organized the Join the Impact Massachusetts, of which I am a member, and Truth Wins Out) to the “Social Transformation Conference at...
View ArticleA New Story for Easter – The Fiction of Christian Persecution in the UK
“I propose that the reason for our increased apostolate in seeking Christian unity must be our ongoing action together in the face of aggressive secularism to maintain our Christian heritage and...
View ArticleSkepticon 5 Day Two – Jessica Ahlquist!
I spent much of the morning working on my presentation for Sunday, but I had to make it into the hall for Jessica Ahlquist. Jessica needs no introduction: she’s the scrappy high school atheist who...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Secular Law and Secular Culture
Secularism is one of my highest values. I consider a secular state – a state in which the government neither represents nor promotes any religious affiliation, in which laws are not made on the basis...
View ArticleSecularism is the Best Response to Greece v. Galloway
Yesterday a divided Supreme Court ruled that sectarian prayer – even prayer which promotes one religious faith the vast majority of the time, at the expense of people of other religions or none – can...
View ArticleBeyond Secularism
Secularism is an important value: a secular government – a government which does not embody or promote any particular religious or nonreligious worldview, and which bases its policies on what is likely...
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Two Forms of Secularism
Secularism is the principle that the government and religion should not unduly influence each other. A secular government is not anti-religious – a government which actively discouraged religious faith...
View ArticleDon’t Put an Atheist on the Supreme Court
Physicist Lawrence Krauss argues in his latest for The New Yorker that Antonin Scalia’s replacement should be a “declared atheist”. He offers in support of this suggestion three main points: that an...
View ArticleMeeting with Superintendent of St. Louis Public Schools Starts and Ends with...
Today I went to a state-sponsored church service – or that’s what it felt like. It was a clergy breakfast hosted by the St. Louis Public School District: a chance to celebrate and support the...
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