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Back from dust 18 Jan 2013 | 08:01 pm
This blog died but is now back from the dust! We’ll be posting more awesome goodness only here at secularplanet.org. Stay tuned as we recover our old posts and give you more interesting articles to re...
Life is Meaningful Here and Now 12 Dec 2011 | 06:55 pm
Believers, especially those make their faith the cornerstone of their lives, have a tendency to think that life without God is meaningless. They claim that, in an atheistic world, living would be absu...
I am a secular 23 Nov 2011 | 07:00 am
With relatively little formal organization and a strong tendency toward independent thought, the nonreligious use many different labels to describe themselves. Many of us have adopted more than one la...
An Old Friend's Divergent Path 22 Nov 2011 | 07:00 am
Yesterday I was feeling bored and decided to browse through some old files on my computer from back when I was a devout Catholic and to check out some websites that I used to visit at that time. I had...
Positive & Negative Conceptions of God 29 May 2011 | 04:00 pm
Although I’ve always known that most believers sincerely love God or at least have very positive feelings toward him, I’ve recently come to realize how much I’ve failed to appreciate this fact when de...
Now on Twitter! 25 Apr 2011 | 01:00 am
I've been using Twitter for a few months now to gather news from various non-theistic, political, and entertainment sources, but I haven't really used it to post my own material until very recently. Y...
The Eroding Wall of Separation 23 Apr 2011 | 10:00 am
As a secular American, the Establishment Clause is my favorite part of the United States Constitution. It originally operated to prevent direct federal funding of churches and the formal establishment...
An Evil Deity Cannot Be Trusted 23 Apr 2011 | 04:00 am
While there are many well known objections to Pascal’s Wager, in a recent e-mail discussion with a reader I formulated a simple argument which I don’t remember ever having encountered and which I woul...
Herding Cats? 1 Jan 2011 | 11:00 am
It's said that organizing atheists is like herding cats. We're implicitly compared to believers, who have acknowledged leaders, authoritative texts, and formal organizations. The reason usually advanc...
Go to Mass or Go to Hell 10 Dec 2010 | 10:00 am
The Catholic Church teaches that its members must attend mass on Sundays and all other holy days of obligation under pain of mortal sin. This means that if they purposely miss mass, they commit a mort...
