Revisiting Kent Schaible
Recently out of a curiosity I decided to see if I could find information on the Kent Schaible case through the court docket. The criminal trial for Herbert and ...
Category: Religion
God is banished from the classroom?
Note: This discussion should be considered applicable to the United States only. Prayers are one of the dominating themes of religion. They range from simple ve...
Sexual morality and Texas
In typical discussions of morality, two topics tend to come up more than most: sex and abortion. Obviously the two are related — without the former you wo...
Further commentary on the pledge of allegiance
If you threaten to take the words “under God” out of the pledge of allegiance, you’re a secular, anti-American lunatic. Or so the Christian ri...
Commentary on holidays
Here’s one question I’ve found myself asking over the last few years: is there a point to holidays? Looking on Dictionary.com, a holiday is a day fi...
Presumption of innocence
Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat.1“The burden of proof rests on who asserts, not on who denies.” In the United States of America, any p...
National Day of Prayer
There has been much fallout recently regarding recent rulings by Federal Courts regarding the National Day of Prayer. I recently had a small, but well-meaning d...
A family practice in Oregon
On March 2, 2008, a 15-month old infant named Ava Pauline Worthington succumbed to bacterial pneumonia. Ava’s parents are Carl and Raylene Worthington. Ra...
Have you heard of Kent Schaible?
Anyone who has conversed with me in detail knows how I feel about parents substituting prayer or homeopathy for actual medicine in treating their children. In e...
The United States was founded by Christians
One thing that always irks me is when atheists use the argument “this country wasn’t founded by Christians”. And the one thing that irks me the most about these...