When somebody mentions the book of Genesis, what do you think of first, and is your initial reaction positive or negative? I'm probabl...

I loathe the Oxford Comma. Its presence in written texts is highly irritating, inept, inapt and unnecessary (note the absence of one of the ...

A posting on Gary Leonard's excellent ex-WCG blog reminded me - for the first time in years - of this nifty little publication produced...

Take a look at this smirking, be-suited reprobate. The resemblance to Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars is striking. He is Marijn Dekkers,...

An interesting post on the self-reinforcing pocket universe of fundamentalism . [The page URL was changed a few days after posting, meanin...

One of the enduring themes in the comments sent to this blog is anger. Anger at a failed faith tradition. Anger at sectarian roots. Anger at...

John Loftus is an insightful individual and a fierce critic of Christianity in general and the Bible in particular. In a recent post he cri...