If you want to annoy an anarchist, say something like this: “Anarchist organization? Isn’t that a contradiction in terms?” And then scoff dismissively. Certainly puts a twitch in my bomb-throwing arm. But the recent movement of atheist churches has provoked thoughts similar to that anti-anarchist canard. Isn’t an atheist religion kinda, I dunno, a contradiction [...]

[Read more →]

Click to see the whole cartoon. Blogged with the Flock Browser Tags: incontempt, cartoons, politics, comics, religion, reverend jeremiah wright

[Read more →]

Anne Rice tells it on the mountain: On the afternoon in 1998 when faith returned, I experienced a sense of the limitless power and majesty of God that left me convinced that He knew all the answers to the theological and sociological questions that had tormented me for years. I saw, in one enduring moment, [...]

[Read more →]

I am totally down with The Atheist Apocalypse.

[Read more →]

Salon interviews Chris Hedges about his latest book criticizing neo-con atheists like Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. I think a lot of their popularity stems from a legitimate anger on the part of a lot of Americans toward the intolerance and chauvinism of the radical religious right in this country. Unfortunately, what they’ve done is [...]

[Read more →]