When someone says “I’ll pray for you….”

…and you’re not a believer, here are some appropriate responses from Peter Mosley at Patheos. This comes from an earlier conversation I had with Dan Blinn, lawyer, humanist, and a hell of a good guy. My reaction to someone who says “I’ll pray for you” is to respond “And I shall pray for you,” and …

As you’re reading this…

…I am just settling into John Dankosky’s big chair to guest-host his show, “Where We Live,” on WNPR. The topic is atheism and humanism, and why both are important, and how both will play out in the election season. The guests are Dan Blinn, of Humanist Association of Connecticut; Dan Xenatro, of Connecticut Valley Atheists, …

The dangers of unbridled fundamentalism (Christian version)

As DickG. says (he sent this link), Mikey Weinstein of Military Religious Freedom Foundation pulls out all the stops in his examination of Christian Dominionism (my old church!) and public policy. Weinstein writes: Proponents of Christian evangelical fundamentalism, or Dominionism, are keen to disingenuously drape their putrid extremism in the false flags of “defending religious …