Canadian Atheist

1 min read 2021-11-22 10:44:00

For-Profit Faith

By James Haught Among sleazy occupations, is anything worse than big-money evangelists with their private jets, garish diamonds, piled-up hairdos

1 min read 2021-11-21 06:00:00

Here’s your Canadian Atheist Weekly Update for 13-Nov-2021 to 19-Nov-2021. This week’s items [13-Nov-2021] Stats on religion in Canada not

1 min read 2021-11-15 11:02:59

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Jonathan Engel, J.D. is the President of the Secular Humanist Society of New York. Here we talk about Bob Jones

1 min read 2021-11-15 10:43:00

By James Haught Human civilization has staggered and lunged through many phases and sub-phases, some overlapping: Stone Age Bronze Age Iron

1 min read 2021-11-14 06:00:00

Here’s your Canadian Atheist Weekly Update for 6-Nov-2021 to 12-Nov-2021. This week’s items [25-Oct-2021] WTF (Weird, That’s Funded?): The

1 min read 2021-11-08 11:44:44

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Jonathan Engel, J.D. is the President of the Secular Humanist Society of New York. Here we talk about ongoing problems

1 min read 2021-11-08 10:41:00

By James Haught For millennia, it was considered normal for strong tribes to conquer, pillage and subjugate weaker ones. After Macedonia annexed

1 min read 2021-11-07 05:00:00

Here’s your Canadian Atheist Weekly Update for 30-Oct-2021 to 5-Nov-2021. This week’s items [28-Oct-2021] Religiosity in Canada and its

1 min read 2021-11-01 09:40:00

By James Haught Years ago, I visited my state’s former black mental hospital and fell into conversation with a witty, friendly, black

1 min read 2021-10-31 05:00:00

Here’s your Canadian Atheist Weekly Update for 23-Oct-2021 to 29-Oct-2021. This week’s items [25-Oct-2021] Canada Summer Jobs change barring

1 min read 2021-10-25 09:39:00

By James Haught I’ll be 90 on my next birthday. My long life is sinking, shrinking, slip-sliding away. My wife is worse: bedfast, under Hospice

1 min read 2021-10-24 05:00:00

Here’s your Canadian Atheist Weekly Update for 16-Oct-2021 to 22-Oct-2021. This week’s items [16-Oct-2021] Religious exemptions to COVID-19

1 min read 2021-10-21 11:28:03

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Jonathan Engel, J.D. is the President of the Secular Humanist Society of New York. Here we talk about changes in the

1 min read 2021-10-18 09:05:00

By James Haught I’m intrigued by Zen meditation as a supposed path to enlightenment. I’ve tried repeatedly — lying silent in bed, blanking

1 min read 2021-10-17 05:00:00

Here’s your Canadian Atheist Weekly Update for 9-Oct-2021 to 15-Oct-2021. This week’s items [15-Oct-2021] Pastor of Saint John church jailed for