Rosa Rubicondior

Creationist discussing science. It's almost as though religious people in general and Creationists in particular think there is some vir...

Because I said so! Why do religions require dogmas (or should that be dogmata)? Why can't they do what science does and use evidence?...

Four Horsemen of Apocalypse . Viktor Vasnetsov, 1887 Is American Christian racism a thing of the past? In earlier blogs I looked at the...

Continuing the series showing the 'love, tolerance and forgiving nature' of the founding fathers of Christianity, this is an assortm...

Martin Luther is recognised as the founder and inspiration for the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. Before then the entire W...

Godwin's Law states, "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1...

Many readers will be familiar with the logical device known as 'Ockham's Razor' and how it can be used to eliminate bias and unn...

One of the charges Atheists, secularists and humanists lay at the door of religion is that they inhibit moral development by acting as a bre...

To Christians, one of the great events in the life of Jesus was the 'triumphal entry into Jerusalem'. One wonders then why the autho...

I just came across this 1989 article by the late, great Isaac Asimov entitled The Relativity of Wrong . You really should read it. ...when...

How on earth did the 'Gospel' of Matthew get to be accepted when the Bible was being compiled? Did they not actually read it? So m...

Painted Lady ( Vanessa cardui ) If only it was remotely possible to get proponents of intelligent design to relate their pseudo-scientifi...

James the Just, 'brother of Jesus' Here is an interesting Judeo-Christian sect from the first century CE. Interesting that is not...

Closet Atheists can be hiding just about everywhere! Just imaging being Pope and suddenly realising it's all been a lie. What would you...

Casting out the money changers , Giotto di Bondone, 14th C. Cappella Scrovegni, Padua, Italy. What on earth was Jesus up to whe...

Are religious clerics suffering from a form of Münchausen syndrome by proxy? This question is not as strange as it may seem. Firstly, the ...