Reviews

By James Zimmerman William Hopper’s The Heathen’s Guide presents a light-hearted, at times comical, overview of the world’s religions. It’s a short book, and thus doesn’t capture every detail about every little sect or cult in existence, but it spends a chapter on each of the biggies.   The book is Read more

By James Zimmerman The Atheist’s Bible Companion to the New Testament, by Mike Davis.©2009, Outskirts Press, 460 pages   If you’ve ever wondered how there can be so many branches of Christianity, with each denomination somehow able to back up its doctrines with scripture, look no further. The Atheist’s Bible Read more

By Ryan Sutter I was raised as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and therefore a creationist. I qualified as one of the “history-deniers” that Professor Dawkins describes in his latest book The Greatest Show on Earth.  I believed that human beings were created 6,000 years ago and that evolution was a Read more

By Grant Steves The dogmatic or the enigmatic?   Dogmatism, some would say, is the assertion of an opinion without proof or an attitude of arrogance with proof, but without reference to evidence.  The dogmatic position is not a religious position, but is reflective of an arrogant attitude toward one’s Read more

By Eric Jayne Most of us know that Jehovah’s Witnesses are notorious for going door-to-door hocking their religion. They’re kind of like Girl Scouts except the former sells an intangible dubious product that exploits fear while the latter offers delicious chocolate-covered Tagalongs and Thin Mints that exploit your sweet tooth.  Read more