God Doesn't; We Do

Question: What happens if you take an atheist and get him to think hard about death and dying for two years?
Answer: He'll cut through the pretense and tell you what death means where it must matter, in terms of life.
The conclusion: You are going to die....

This text is adapted – or fleshed out, rather, in my attempt to practice it in the way I feel I think best, in writing – from the talk I recently gave at Atheists United in Los Angeles. I wanted to put it in print because I think the points it makes...

Why is it so hard to change religious beliefs? Or, more broadly, why is it so hard to get people out of any ideological belief system? Much of the difficulty arises from what I've termed the religion gap, that distance between how we are as a society...

Yesterday, I wrote a piece analyzing the ultimately religious nature of the Regressive Left, or more broadly the Religion of Identity Politics (in that both form Ideologically Motivated Moral Communities, IMMCs, which I argued are the correct generalization...