No Virginia, There is no Santa Claus

This is an amazing piece written by athiest Edwin Kagin.  There is a lot of important information crammed into this eloquent (and correct!) envisioning of this famous response.  It should be noted that Mr. Kagin writes with a humorist edge.  His writing is solid, educational, amusing, and does not pull punches.

Dear Virginia,

No, [...]

Atheists know more about religion than you

By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times

Story posted 2010.09.27 at 09:07 PM PDT

If you want to know about God, you might want to talk to an atheist.

Heresy? Perhaps. But a survey that measured Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists and agnostics knew more, on average, than followers of most major faiths. [...]

Who actually reads the Bible?

This image was produced as a humor piece by Standard Madness, but I have no problem believing the general idea that percentage-wise more atheists have read the bible than so called “people of faith”.

Personally, I’ve got 16 English translations of the Bible on my iPod.  I haven’t read the whole thing yet, [...]

Thank God for Atheists. Wait! What?

I stumbled across a lot of excellent news from USA Today, and in particular, the American Religious Identification Survey 2008.

Atheists and the other unaffiliated make up 15% of the American population.  That’s 34 million of us.  And now for the really good news.  Atheists are the fastest growing “religious” group in America.  Finally [...]