Nearly everyone knows that Thomas Jefferson coined the phrase “wall of separation between church and state,” but far […]
religion
Here’s a dark meditation to begin your day: imagine that everything you experience upon waking is an illusion. […]
A remarkable fact about humanity is that virtually every culture that has ever existed has worshiped one or […]
Between the years of 1609 and 1611, Galileo Galilei made more paradigm-shifting observations than perhaps any scientist in […]
The deep and critical reading of scripture marks the beginning of the end for Christian credibility. Biblical criticism, […]
If you want to get to the bottom of any historical event or movement, you have to get […]
The human mind, linguist Noam Chomsky argues, is a biological system with built-in limits. As impressive as the […]
To the ancient Greeks, religion was not just taken seriously—it was a matter of life and death. Religion […]
If a noble birth were a reliable predictor of philosophical greatness, then no one would have expected much […]
The history of Western atheism begins with an unsettling accusation: it is not God who created man in […]