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Jessica Hagy, the author of indexed, is going to be covering the 2008 election for McClatchy news service’s alt.campaign. I love her sketches and think that this may be one of my all time favorites of hers. (Click to see it full size).

I’m not a big fan of Romney’s politics, but being a Mormon myself, [...]

The Pope said today that Atheism had led to some of the “greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice” ever known. If you read my Religious Rhetoric article earlier this year you might suspect I agree with him. I don’t. The same flaws inherent in that argument are equally valid for it’s converse. As [...]

When discussing religion with people, I have often been told by Christians that the Bible is the perfect, infallible Word of God. While, I do believe the Bible is the Word of God, I do not accept that is either perfect of infallible. I don’t think it is necessary to accept that it perfect in [...]

One of the forums I visit online recently got into a debate about the role of religion in clinical psychology. One of the people in the discussion made the claim that “Religion is responsible for more death than anything else in the world.” The way this was phrased triggered a critical response in me. I’ve [...]

I had written a long rant about the politicization of Christmas, denouncing anyone using the celebration of the birth of Christ to promote political agendas. Then while listening to John Denver and the Muppets signing Christmas Songs, I though Kermit said it far better than I could, while maintaining the spirit of the Season. [...]