thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/08/08/655951/bryan-fischer-children-of-same-sex-couples-must-be-saved-through-underground-railroad-kidnapping/ How about an underground railroad to remove innocent children from the homes of fundamentalist morons?

Among nonbelievers on the Internet, there has recently been some discussion about whether the more prominent public speakers and debaters for fundamentalist religious beliefs are honestly self deluded or are intentionally misrepresenting what they claim to be the truth about reality. I am in no position to definitively assess, one way or another, which of … Whatever The Motive, Human Ego Can Be An Understandable Component Of The Apologist’s Public Outreach

What follows is a cautionary bit of fiction, inspired by C.S. Lewis’s fiction The Screwtape Letters, Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil, which are fantastically entertaining and often very insightful. I don’t claim my mirror letters are as good as Lewis’s, but they are offered in the same cautionary spirit. 9,000 words, This … The Tapescrew Letters

“Theism and the Genetic Fallacy, Part II” by Keith Parsons Parsons turns the tables on Alvin Plantinga and argues that the non-existence of a sensus divinitatis is evidence for the non-existence of God. “An Empirical Test of the Existence of Sensus Divintatus in Atheists” by Jim Lippard If there is really an innate universal belief … Two Old Posts about the Sensus Divinitatis

There’s a petition to the White House, to “Call upon the Indonesian government to respect the freedom and dignity of all its citizens and to free Alexander Aan.” Aan is the Indonesian currently imprisoned because of announcing he is an atheist on Facebook. If you haven’t signed it yet, what are you waiting for? There … Aan petition

According to FOX News, “Supporters Vow to Keep California Veterans Tribute Despite Court Ruling.”

Let me preface this by saying that in most other aspects of philosophy, I have an enormous respect for Peter van Inwagen. His work is extraordinarily insightful and often brings a great deal of relevant discussion to the topic at hand. This is precisely why I find his attempt to rectify our understanding of the … Peter van Inwagen’s Miracle Monkeys

http://www.examiner.com/article/christian-leader-wants-to-tax-atheists-for-not-going-to-church Well, if it comes to that, atheists should go to church! They should go to the local fundamentalist barn and sit on the front row in gym shorts and T-shirts. The T-shirt will read: “I won’t teach evolution in your church if you don’t teach creation in my school.” Or maybe: “Jesus, protect me … Tax Atheists!

(Note: this section will be updated over time.) Academic Publications Brooks, E. Bruce. “Arguments from Silence.” Warring States Papers 4 (2013). Carrier, Richard C. “Did Jesus Exist? Earl Doherty and the Argument to Ahistoricity” The Secular Web (2002). —. Proving History. Buffalo: Prometheus, 2012, 117-19. Garraghan, G.J., S.J. A Guide to Historical Method. J. Delanglez, … The Argument from Silence: Related Resources