Foreign Drivers

I got a call from my driver at 7:45 this morning. Whatever he said, he said it in such a thick accent that it might as well have been in his native tongue. I said, “What?” and he repeated what he had said, and I somehow deciphered that he was saying that he would pickContinue

“Some People Did Something”

“CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.” With that quote in the N.Y. Post, Ilhan Omar has conservatives up in arms. The general response from the right has been something like, 2,900 people died! GetContinue

Ideology & Knowledge

There was an image on social media that I saw. It said that millennials, if they were thinking that socialism or Islam should be  the basis of our political system (how many millennials  really want a Sharia state?), that we should remember the numbers of deaths attributable to those ideologies. They said that there wereContinue

Jefferson The Deist

Conservatives like to say that we are a Christian nation, and they point to the faith of the founding fathers as evidence. Yet our founding documents say otherwise. One founding father, who is credited with the doctrine of the separation of Church and State, was none other than Thomas Jefferson, and he surely was notContinue

A Personal God: What’s The Harm?

Knowing that I’m an atheist, someone asked me, “What’s the harm in believing in God if he’s true to me?” (I guess that the “true to me” part should be addressed from some sort of pragmatic stance and not as a literal truth claim.) What is the harm indeed? We can say that there isContinue