“In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of ‘respect’.”
– Salman Rushdie
In took the Unites States ten years or more to settle the score with [...]

“Ghosts” and “souls” haven’t avoided our human characteristic described above. Here also, the believer creates in his or her mind a complete virtual picture, bearing its own rules. This is done by collecting pieces of alleged data from others. The picture includes various worlds of life after death, reward and punishment, heaven and hell, [...]

“The difference between physics and metaphysics is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.” – Robert W. Wood
On a scale of 1 to 10 – how high do you rank the possibility that vampires are real?
If you answered anything higher than 1, it means you still give the old vampire myth a chance. Rationally, of-course, there’s [...]

(iii) The sages knew it all – surprising ancient knowledge is yet another ruse in the game. If our ancestors knew so much without modern scientific tools, then it must be God himself who took care to grant them this knowledge.
This method is most popular among Jewish players of the game, some of whom have [...]

“Fools never die, they are merely replaced by others.” – Unknown
In February 1997, the Israeli Air Force suffered its worst disaster ever. Two transport helicopters carrying troops collided in mid-air over the village of She’ar Yashuv in northern Galilee, resulting in the death of 73 soldiers. The small country mourned, and a commission of inquiry [...]

Let’s conduct a seemingly simple experiment that may be done during common theological arguments (which I’m sure you’ve encountered many times). After hearing all the usual claims about the miracles supposedly created by the wonderful divine supervision, ask your religious friend the following question:
“Tell me yourself, what will cause you to quit believing… Is there [...]