I was listening to the podcast of NPR’s Day to Day from last Friday, just after the gay marriage ban passed.  They brought on several people to talk about the decision, but the most interesting for me was Maggie Gallagher, President of National Organization for Marriage.  This is one of the main groups responsible for […]

In my particular corner of the Bible Belt there are billboards that have sprung up like weeds claiming “An educated person knows the Bible” and directing drivers to the Bible Literacy Project.  I never understood why projects like this always seem to spring up in the Bible Belt where they’re already preaching to the converted.  […]

I came across this page in my random surfing yesterday and it got me to thinking. The page is maintained by a born-again Presbyterian who looks to have a slightly left-leaning political view judging from a glance around his site (Thanks to Riker from Prose Justice for pointing this out to me, I’d originally identified […]

Simmie Williams, a gay-identified 17 year old, was shot and killed in Fort Lauderdale last week. It’s entirely possible that the crime wasn’t motivated by anti-gay sentiment, although Simmie was dressed like a woman when he was shot and there has been a rising tide of anti-homosexual rhetoric in the Fort Lauderdale community from […]

I came across this article at Radar online about the evangelical Christians who run Forever 21, a fashion retail chain that has grown into a national retail juggernaut.  The Changs, the Korean owners who started the business twenty-four years ago, attribute all of their success to the love of Jesus and the good old fashioned […]

I was in a local Borders earlier this weekend browsing through the Religious History section when I heard the following conversation from the other side of the stacks where all of the bibles and other strictly christian works were kept:
Son: “Look, some idiot put a Bible in the Christian Fiction section.”
Mom: ”Oh, well you’d better put […]

Irreligiosity is all about religion gone wrong.
If you count yourselves amongst the devout in a particular religion then please give me at least to the end of this post, and if you count yourself as a member of the neo-atheism movement that has been gaining popularity in recent years then please hold your vaguely smug […]