Absurd proliferation creates surplus populations. Surplus populations dwell in poverty, disease and the threat of violence. If hunger or disease doesn’t take them then some asshole with a gun or knife will. Yet Catholic and Muslim clerics encourage people to procreate beyond their means and do it with the threat of God’s wrath hanging over their ( Read more... )

Religion carries the seed of tyranny buried in its most beautiful bloom. The greatest argument religion can wage against humanism is that without god there can be no morality. They even throw at us the colossal evil of Stalinism, Nazism and other Marxist and fascist regimes of the 20th century.

On this point I would agree. Humanism does not ( Read more... )

We are deep in the middle of a cultural war yet most of us fail to see this. There is a battle waging for the hearts and minds of the masses and it is not the battle of light vs. the dark. It is the battle between science and religion. It is a war between secularism and faith. At its most extreme this war is a battle between those on the far right ( Read more... )