*To ward off evil on Halloween you should walk around your home three times clockwise and three times counterclockwise * To see a spider on Halloween means it is a relative returning from the dead to check on you * Knives were hidden on Halloween night so that returning spirits would not come to any harm * If you place a turnip on your gatepost on Halloween then no evil spirits can harm you or your home * Originally...

“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn’t...

It really pains me to admit this.  I seem to have fallen into that social group that has to check their social networking websites daily.  A very interesting phenomenon has caught my attention.  People whome you know or knew in the past,  initially accept your “friend” requests and then once they get wind of anything about you they no longer like they “DE-friend” you.  This is such a funny occurrence that it...

  Americans don’t need the government to tell them when or how to pray. Americans have the right to pray for whomever they want and in what manner they like. But we don’t need an officially designated government proclamation to do that. Our people are free to engage in worship whenever they want. Allowing government to set aside certain days for prayer and worship implies that the state has some say over our religious lives when it...

Atheism scares a lot of people. It is human nature to fear the unfamiliar and anything you do not completely understand.  I find that the definition of atheism is almost universally misunderstood by everyone that is not actually an atheist. The true definition of atheism is the philosophical position that deities do not exist. Atheism to me is a lot like politics.  You have your conservative, moderate and your liberal atheists all of...

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. – Gene Roddenberry GD Star Ratingloading...