The Spiritual Rationalist

Our local freethinkers' email list had a flurry of activity today after this local newspaper article started with the sentence, "Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, the ranks of the underdog state Senate Republicans are suddenly filled with the religion of reform." Needless to say, some of the local godless ty read more>>>

This site isn't specifically about atheism, and it's certainly not a place to bash religion in general, but the fact is that rational, secular folks in American society are treated very much as second-class citizens, if they are outed to their supernaturalist fellows. read more>>>

I just ran across a new project intended to protect children from exposure to religious indoctrination on the internet. read more>>>

Recently, a blogger for one of our local newspapers wrote a curious article in which he publicly "came out" as an atheist. The first few paragraphs are a perfectly common statement of this fact, and seem to demonstrate a rather balanced and rational attitude toward his own lack of faith in a god. read more>>>

I randomly found the strangest essay the other day. It's about an Atheist who meets god, on a train, and gets the chance to ask a few questions.

It starts out:

I met god the other day.

I know what you’re thinking. How the hell did you know it was god? read more>>>

For some time now, I've had thoughts rolling around in my head on how to boil down my position on critical thinking into a "mission statement of the mind", if you will. Last night, in a fit of sleeplessness, I started to feel productive, and I realized I'd found an apt analogy! I think I finally found the right words to make the whole thing hang together. read more>>>