I’m miserable.
Or so I’ve been told, at least.

Sharing their misery
John Wallace
It is tragic that there are people who apparently have no hope and are so hollow inside that they will spend huge amounts of money to spread their misery to others (”Atheist group spreads word on billboards,” Nov. 12). I guess it makes them feel [...]

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For some inexplicable reason, more and more frequently I have been seeing reference to the Declaration of Independence as some sort of evidence that America is a Christian nation. What better day than the 4th of July to address this document and its historical role in our government.
Contrary to popular belief, the Declaration of Independence [...]

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Yeah, yeah, I know that Mythbusters already proved the myth about shooting fish in a barrel, but when the Rocky Mountain News passes along a fish like this, its time to lock and load.

Dobson: Obama distorting Bible, Constitution
Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS — As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement’s biggest [...]

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When I argue about the evils of religion and the encroachment of baseless, religious dogmatism upon the public sphere of government activity, I will frequently hear the retort that I’m being an alarmist or overreacting. Of course, all that is necessary is to wait a little bit and the religious nuts will do that Voo-Doo [...]

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With the recent hue and cry about the California Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, one would be inclined to believe that the foundations of American society are about to crumble, bringing the entirety of this nation with it. However unlikely this may be, it hasn’t stopped social conservatives from invoking every sort [...]

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A few days ago, I asked a very simple question:

Q. Where in our Constitution does it acknowledge or state that the U.S. relies upon the Judeo-Christian God, Christianity, or Christian morality?
A. It doesn’t. Period. God is not mentioned once. Religion appears exactly twice, once in Article VI where the “no religious test” prohibition is articulated, [...]

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I have a very simple question.
To anyone that wants to argue that the United States is a Christian nation or founded upon the Christian religion, I ask you this:
Q. Where in our Constitution does it acknowledge or state that the U.S. relies upon the Judeo-Christian God, Christianity, or Christian morality?
A. It doesn’t. Period. God is [...]

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What kind of thinking is “dangerous”?
According to Rep. Monique Davis, a Chicago Democrat in the IL state legislature, atheism is dangerous thinking:

Davis: I don’t know what you have against God, but some of us don’t have much against him. We look forward to him and his blessings. And it’s really a tragedy — it’s [...]

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Dear Mike Huckabee,
In light of your recent statements and pandering to evangelicals, to wit:

HOUSTON – Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Tuesday defended his Christmas ad amid suggestions that the ordained Baptist minister had gone too far mixing religion and politics.
The ad, which is airing in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, shows Huckabee [...]

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Joe Scarborough goes bottom feeding with Christopher Hitchens and comes up with a bucket of garbage:

Scarborough: Doesn’t a lot of [the surge of atheism] have to do with the fact that George Bush got re-elected in 2004, supposedly by evangelicals? I remember the day after the election, people like Maureen Dowd and … and uh, [...]

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