I post this “invitation” now and then. I’m not paid for most of my teaching and writing, so I welcome […]
Tag Archive for ‘atheist’
Holy Cow Trough!
What a surprise, and just in time for the Christmas Season. . . We all know that Superstition and Credulity […]
Baby god
Joy to the world, the season of Big Babies is Back! Predictably, the seasonal outrage over the fake “war on […]
Am I a Socialist?
Lots of fear-flaunting these days. In the 50’s, the scare word was “Communist.” Now, “Socialist.” Having never seriously studied political […]
Path Beyond Belief
For most of my life, faith, church, God were formative, central, deeply influential … Then, over time, with much reflection, […]
Lord of the Nation?
Teaching a class on Thomas Paine “in our age of un-reason” I came across this quote from the United States […]
Something’s Bugging Me
I took this photo this afternoon as the “curiosity beetle” was ambling across my Thoreau book. Look for my column […]
Do you read my weekly columns?
You may or may not know that I post my weekly “Highland Views” columns from the Citizen-Times right here in an […]
Decision Time for Teachers
Life in the American South is a constant head-spin. Liberal Progressives mixed in with REvangelicals and other Disciples of the […]
Paine Management for Believers and Non-Believers
As I’m about to teach a six-week class on a forgotten freethinking founder of America, it becomes clearer to me […]
Is Every Atheist an Anti-Theist?
That’s my Q of the D … Question of the Day. If you identify as an Atheist, are you also […]
What is Humanism?
For awhile after leaving faith-church-god, I wasn’t sure what to call myself. “Ex-Christian,” “Former Minister,” “Atheist,” “Non-Supernaturalist”? I settled on […]
Friendly Freethinker 