Newly-germinated seeds

I have to admit: every once and a while, I hop on over to the “other side” and peruse sites such as http://catholicdiscussion.wordpress.com/. It helps cement my beliefs about the absolute silliness of religion.
So the most recent post on this Catholic blog deals with abortion. And this is what the author wrote: “Abortion is the exact [...]

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The Atheist Blogroll

Raising Kids without Religion has been added to The Atheist Blogroll. You can see the blogroll in my sidebar. The Atheist blogroll is a community building service provided free of charge to Atheist bloggers from around the world. If you would like to join, visit Mojoey at Deep Thoughts for more information.

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Man Says God Told Him to Do It

I found this short little article in today’s Dallas Morning News. This just about made me fall out of my chair (or maybe it was god). I just wonder, if god was telling the guy to run a woman off the road, couldn’t he also tell the guy how to find Osama Bin Laden?

Texas [...]

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God’s Plans

“God has decided this is what’s right for you. He’s given you other gifts.” This is what a parent told me yesterday. She wasn’t talking about me.  She was talking about her son. He was too short. For her, at least. He’s at that awkward age where the boys and girls start growing. Her kid [...]

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Giving Thanks

How do you teach kids to be thankful when you’re raising them without god? To whom should they be thankful for?
Being grateful means we express our appreciation for some kindness or benefit. We don’t have to know its source. Only that we realize we are fortunate and we are humble enough to know it’s not [...]

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The MYTH of Chastity

Have you ever heard a woman say, “I’m going to swear off shopping with my girlfriends so I know if they really like me or just shopping with me?” Probably not. You know that your friends are spending time with you because they like you. Shopping, for example, is just an activity that you both [...]

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How to find me in heaven

At three years old, my son, N***, was very interested in heaven and the afterlife. One Thursday morning in spring, as we were planting geraniums in our flowerbeds, he asked, “Mommy?”
Yes, I answered. 
But N*** was satisfied and did not question God and heaven again for several more years. I understood with that conversation why so [...]

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A Hero at the Carwash

Heroes can be found in the most unlikely places.
Like the car wash.
When we think of what makes a person a hero, we think of brave one-time acts such as rescuing a child from fire. Usually, the hero has acted on impulse to save someone.
Last week, as I was waiting at the car wash, a mother came [...]

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What Motivates Us to “Be Good”?

What motivates a person to be good if he is atheist or agnostic? It is a question that must be answered before we can move forward as a tolerant society.  In order to win the trust of my religious neighbors, I must convince them that I, too, can live a good life without a moral [...]

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Our Evil Nature

Maybe optimism isn’t always a good thing.
My kid’s been reading Lord of the Flies in his middle-school class. Yesterday the teacher took a survey. She asked the kids if they thought children were born good or bad. In a class of 22 students, only two said that babies were born neither good nor bad. The [...]

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