By George Kane At the end of April, the Washington Post published an article by two sociologists that provided many useful facts that argue that atheists are socially well-adjusted by comparison to god-believers: On numerous respected measures of societal success — rates of poverty, teenage pregnancy, abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, Read more
By Eric Jayne If you’re a baseball fan like me then you’re happy that the Major League Baseball season is underway. Even if the Minnesota Twins continue to have a rough season I will be spending my hard earned money at a few games in Target Field this year. It’s Read more
By George Kane A ruling in April by the Supreme Court may well have disastrous consequences for the separation of church and state in the United States. By a 5-4 ruling in the case Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, the court overturned a 43 year-old precedent that had Read more
By Eric Jayne (Letter to the editor, titled “Day of Reason” was published in the Sunday’s 05.08.11 edition of the St. Paul Pioneer Press) It was disappointing that Gov. Dayton chose to celebrate the National Day of Prayer with church pastors on the Capitol’s steps instead of celebrating reason with Read more
By August Berkshire America is under attack by Religious Right Christians. They are attacking women, gay people, workers, voters, doctors, our educational system, our healthcare system, nonChristians, and the poor. Their policies will result in a loss of civil rights, intolerance, ignorance, illness, suffering, poverty, physical violence, and death. There Read more