Judith Hayes
Judith Hayes
Judith L. Hayeswas an American author and secular humanist columnist. She is best known for her book, The Happy Heretic, and she also operated a humanist website by the same name. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Free Inquiry, Skeptical Inquirer, Freethought Today, Humanist in Canada, American Rationalist, and Secular Humanist Bulletin...
beautiful profound atheism
Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment.
challenge judged laws power prayer results
If judged only by the results that challenge the laws of probabilities, then the power of prayer is nil
christian justice atheism
It wouldn't matter if every single President since Washington had been a Bible-toting, evangelical Christian. They weren't, of course, but even if they had been, it still would not change the secular foundation of our republic. Christians like to quote various Presidents or Supreme Court Justices who (quite incorrectly) have referred to our "Christian nation." But what do those quotes prove? I could quote Richard Nixon, but would that prove that ours was intended to be a nation of crooks?
religion atheism
All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.
christian prayer school
As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment of silence' is a deafening roar to a nonbeliever.
catholic atheism worship
A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.
biblical religion palestine
The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?
judging challenges probability
If judged only by the results that challenge the laws of probabilities,...
spring believe heaven
Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an afterlife of some sort, but not a 'before-life?' Why are there so many versions of Heaven, Paradise and The Great Beyond, but almost none about The Great Before...
evolution creation teach
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
thinking people miracle
If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so?