Antipodes

Dans un monde où la science aborde des challenges inimaginables (génétique et physique surtout), de nombreux idiots persistent à imaginer qu...

Throughout my life, attitudes towards the Jesus phenomenon have been evolving constantly. As a child, I was led to believe that Je...

This fascinating photo shows a throng of pious women (?) in God-only-knows what land. The rounded forms and pleasantly harmonious h...

In my blog post of 6 October 2012, entitled Pierrot wanted a wife [ display ], I spoke of the local Gerin family, one of whom, Hippolyte Ge...

Imagine a millionaire, with a constant urge to make more millions. At a religious level, let's suppose that our millionaire happens to b...

There may be readers who fail to understand how I can be irritated by the present-day practice of religion ( disgusted at times, as in my p...

Apparently Mitt Romney believes the kind of frightening nonsense expressed in the following cartoon: It's scary to think that suc...

Click here to access an excellent article by Sam Harris entitled On the Freedom to Offend an Imaginary God . There's an old sayi...

Having just announced the creation of a new religion—in my previous blog post [ display ]—I'm aware that it's somewhat risky to subm...

I've been trying to define the principles of a new religion: its creed, you might say. It's not often that I do this kind of thing, ...

Christine gave me this rare copy of a French-language edition, dated 1848, of the apocryphal scriptures. It includes, above all, the ...

Over a fortnight ago, a 14-year-old mentally-deficient girl named Rimsha (probably suffering from Down syndrome), said to be a Christian, w...

On the occasion of International Women's Day , the US Freedom from Religion Foundation placed a full-page ad in the New York Times enc...

This distinguished Italian priest is named Gabriele Amorth , and for many years, he was the Vatican's chief exorcist. He has become...

If God were a cyclopean creature, then his huge eye might look like this: This artificially-colored NASA image of the Helix nebula combin...

For me, ever since my first stay at Tinos in August 1964 [ see my French-language web page ] , I've always recalled today's Christia...

Here's a photo of what appears to be an ordinary Austrian driver's license, issued to a young guy named Niko Alm : When inspected ...