I’d rather be forced to sit with a hemorrhoidal badger in my lap through every single George W. Bush and/or Al Gore speech ever recorded than to have to read Atlas Shrugged ever again.

According to Rick Warren’s Saddleback church, divorce is permitted only in cases of adultery or abandonment, and never for abuse.

“Today’s Judaism as dictated by rabbis of various religious streams is vicious, divisive, discriminatory, cruel, oppressive, sexist, and anti-democratic.”

Tom Clark explores the subject, so you don’t have to.

Superstitions such as goddess worship are cultural impediments to realizing true gender equality.

Saudi women who win scholarships to study abroad can’t use them unless their male “guardian” goes with them for the duration.

Talks to OB and to Christer Sturmark.

As recently as the 1960s, in about a dozen states in the US, if you didn’t believe in a divine system of reward and punishment or if you denied the existence of a deity, you were actually denied civil rights.

The Godly are always there in the wings, waiting for the hour in which they can claim the victory as theirs and restore tyranny, only in their image.

“You’re not like the non-Muslims out there,” the teacher says. “All that evil you see in the streets, people not wearing the hijab properly, people smoking… you should hate it, you should hate walking down that street.”

They are there on prime time TV, they thunder on FM radios between adverts for Pepsi and hair removing cream.

“We had to leave the children where we found them.”

As a pioneer of the African American freethought and Humanist traditions, Frederick Douglass actively challenged the moral hypocrisy of white Christianity.

There was a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling “terrorist” and “kill him.”

The mighty do not fear free speech as an abstract idea but as the beginning of the end of their privileges.

Jonathan Bennett on Huck, Himmler, and Jonathan Edwards, and the relationship between sympathy on the one hand and bad morality on the other.

Because the most energetic religions tend to be the ones most invested in keeping women subordinate, women in particular have nothing to gain from the burgeoning involvement of religion in the public sphere.

Talking to Bill Moyers around…1988?

Conflicts over who is authorized to produce and disseminate knowledge are conflicts between science and religion.

She promotes, as frequent guests, people who preach views that are medically worthless and in a few cases can even lead to death.