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Anybody who has talked to me for more than five minutes knows that I’m pretty damn obsessed with American politics. It’s a scratch that I itch essentially every day by watching The Rachel Maddow show (who my girlfriend jokes is my lesbian girlfriend) and The Lawrence O’Donnell show. Both of them are screamingly left wing [...]

I’ve been busy this new year- so busy that I’ve apparently left my little corner of internet alone for a long time.  I’ve started up grad school, which has a much more rigorous demand for my time than I’m used to. In addition to that, and perhaps the biggest reason why posts have virtually dried up here [...]

As these examples from my own work as a skeptical demonologist show, belief in demons and the Devil merely harks back to a time of ignorance and superstition. We may well wonder—if we are to use the word at all—what has possessed the Roman Catholic Church to believe, or pretend to believe, otherwise. …and with that, [...]

Hello, humans. It’s been a while. And truth be told, it’ll probably be another good while before the next self-indulgent rant. Not that this will fit that description. Shit. Now I’ve probably gone and gotten you all hot and bothered for some dark, sardonic wit. Sorry to disappoint. I’ve been doing some thinking (don’t worry, [...]

The Air Force Academy is participating in the National Prayer Luncheon, which is inspired by the controversial National Prayer Breakfast. The breakfast is sponsored by The Fellowship, a foundation associated with The Family, a secretive group of influential Christian lawmakers and politicians whose mission is to advance the evangelical Christian agenda in Washington and across [...]

Hundreds of thousands of Malaysian Hindus have gathered in Kuala Lumpur for the annual Thaipusam festival. Thaipusam is a celebration of the victory of good over evil, and is dedicated to the Hindu god Murugan, the son of Shiva and Parvati. It is believed that the Goddess Parvati gave a lance to Lord Murugan to [...]

With Chinese leader Hu Jintao's arrival in the U.S. this week on a state visit, a group of Tibetans and their supporters gathered outside the White House to protest, urging President Obama to raise the issue of human rights in Tibet. In 1950, Chinese Communist forces invaded Tibet, claiming to have "liberated" the region. Yet, [...]

Minister Kevin Benton says there are no atheists in hell. The author of A Field Trip to Hell was featured on the Trinity Broadcasting Network in November, where he said that atheists cannot exist because to reject something, you must first believe that it must exist … and that everyone is a believer in hell [...]