The Ongoing decline of US Religious Belief

The saga of a decline is US religion has a new data point. On June 17, 2022, Gallup released the results of a new poll. You can find the details on their website under the title “Belief in God in U.S. Dips to 81%, a New Low“. This specific survey was rather focused, and asked … Read more

Does a God really Exist?

God the Father, Cima da Conegliano, c. 1510–1517

When it comes to this question, one thing is highly probable – regardless of your current stance, anything I write will most probably not change your mind. If that is true, then why bother reading this? Read on to gain an understanding of why I do not believe. That way you can then begin to … Read more

How can a doctor be an atheist?

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A chap called Bill Dunn has written an essay that has attracted a bit of attention. It has been published within the Catholic Transcript, a magazine of the Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut. When I say “attention”, what I actually mean is that it popped up in my Google news feed so it perhaps implies a sufficient … Read more

What do people with a belief in god actually believe?

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To the outsider looking in, a system of belief can appear to be one huge collective with some minor variations, but more or less the same. It may in fact be very tempting to view all those with a belief in god as one unified group. In reality, the degree of fragmentation tends to be … Read more

Is there a good reason to think that there is a God?

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There are humans who doubt and do not believe, and there are humans that do sincerely believe. Today I’d like to briefly mull over some of the common arguments presented by those that embrace the concept of a God. Disclaimer: I’m not a believer. Well something much have started it all The argument tends to … Read more

Weekly Weird Religious News

weekly weird religious news

I’ve been doing these weekly posting of weird religious news items for a few months now. You might wonder if there is ever a week when nothing really weird makes it into the news cycle. Has this week been such a week? Nope. So far, each and every week I have no problem randomly picking … Read more