Not everyone has someone in their lives they love to distraction.  Someone with whom they are so intimately entangled in so many ways that separation would be an unbearable torment.  But many do have such a precious person and these people can vouch for the absurdity of...

How you bring up your kids has a massive effect on their lives. I want you to think about doing something amazing for them. It may mean making a sacrifice and it may be the most difficult sacrifice you have ever had to make or it may be the easiest. I don't know. I want you to think of the values you would love them to have when they grow up. The values that will make them happy...

If there was no Resurrection—there is no Christianity. Problem is, evidence for the Resurrection is thin to non-existent."Not so!" Christians argue, "More than 500 people saw Jesus after the Resurrection. That is proof enough!"They are, of course, referring to Paul's words in 1 Corinthians...

Honestly, I am astounded when believers tell me atheists are arrogant.Here's the thing, believers can hardly help but be arrogant. It's the nature of the beast. To be a believe in a god, you have to be sure your god is real (despite there being no evidence that it is so) and, for most believers, that entails being equally sure that billions of other people who believe in...

In the Bible, God clearly condones slavery—the type of slavery where slaves where bought and sold, where slaves were included as a man's estate when he died, where a master could split up families, where beating slaves was no crime, even if they were killed, so long as they survived the beating by a day or two.  A man could even sell his daughter to act as a bonded "wife" (sex...

Imagine the men who invented Christianity sitting round a table...  At the head of the table sat an old man with an unruly beard, a checked shemagh covering his head. He looks at the men around the table, "OK, we've agreed Jesus is the son of God, we've added the ancient Osiris story about the death and resurrection—we know every god has to have that. But, we still need a strong...