Morality of modern civilization has surpassed that of the Bible

My path out of Christianity began 30 years ago when I realized that evolution was a fact- that we evolved from very simple organisms that lived 4,000,000,000 years ago. I wondered why a god would use such a long, convoluted process to produce the desired human product,

How Religion Poisons Everything: Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything is a 2007 book by the author and journalist Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens contends that organised religion is “violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children” and sectarian, and that accordingly it “ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”

Overcoming Religious Indoctrination and child danger.

Religious indoctrination is real. It is a traditionally-based process of all cultures. Its power is such that peoples so affected have a ‘belief’ they have chosen their particular ‘faith’ above the many on offer throughout the planet.

Christians Don’t Use Their Head.

Image by Jason McKim’s Old Account via Flickr

Christians are told: don’t use your head if you want to keep your faith. Whatever you do, don’t let these people make you think about it.

Mormon Church: “We’re trying to change our image.”

As of Friday, December 6, the Mormon Church has officially renounced the doctrine that brown skin is a punishment from God.