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If I had to do a list of the real problems behind school shootings, I’d say (in no particular order)…. One: Fatherlessness, which results in a defective generation of young men. Two: Abortion...

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2022/05/27/psychopathic-young-men-mental-illness-is-a-symptom-not-a-cause/

3rd Day of Christmas, St. John the Evangelist, Religious Tolerance, Soviets Liquidate the Kulaks, Hagia Sophia, Kepler, Whitefield, and More . . . Holidays and Observances on December 27 Today is...

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2019/12/27/history-holidays-observances-on-december-27-the-3rd-day-of-christmas/

Modern astrophysics is a faith just as surely as traditional religion is — but the astrophysicists are too arrogant to admit to that fact. Regular readers know that a troll came through here th...

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2018/04/23/video-theories-universe-faith/

We’re told atheism is a rational response to the Bible’s factual failures. That’s a cover story. Atheism is really about an illusory freedom from Big Rules. I’ve been thinking a lot about...

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2018/03/24/choose-atheism-youre-not-boss/

I continue to be unpleasantly overwhelmed by deadline intensive work.  Breaks are few and far between.  The virtue of this is that, separated from the minutiae of daily news, I’ve had the opp...

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2015/04/22/musings-about-the-leftist-man-god-and-his-unshakeable-belief-in-his-infallibility/

My sister watched The Unbelievers, a documentary that follows Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss as they try to convert people to atheism, with science as the true faith. That’s all fine. If t...

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2014/10/07/atheists-make-fatuous-arguments-that-dont-debunk-god-christianity-is-virtuous-and-radical-islam-is-illiberal-and-monstrous/

My approach wasn’t as erudite, but this short lecture much explains the intellectual process I went through to stop being an atheist.  I haven’t yet jumped on board with the Biblical God (al...

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2014/04/07/since-there-was-a-big-bang-there-must-be-a-big-banger/

Before I explain how Christians are killing Christianity (at least according to Alternet and Salon), a short anecdote:  I have friends who used to joke that they would take up smoking when their...

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2014/03/26/secularists-its-christians-who-are-killing-christianity/

My very strong sense is that the shutdown will reveal how much of our federal government is inessential.  I’m not the only one who feels this way.  And no wonder, because the shutdown reveals...

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/10/01/morning-roundup-and-open-thread/

I have no problem with atheism, having been an atheist for large chunks of my life.  I do, however, have a problem with atheists’ concerted attacks on religion, which I think bespeaks precisel...

https://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/07/04/the-top-ten-awkward-facts-about-the-new-atheist-monument/