For atheists in this difficult region of the country, there is a resource for reading about how other atheists are dealing with issues surrounding being in a religious state.

My Brother: The Making of an Agnostic

Written by Mims H. Carter

Daylight Atheism

An excellent site that is consistently updated. The articles are well written and top-notch.

Age of Wonder

One of the best written pieces by the author of Daylight Atheism. It outlines the beauty and wonder of the universe around us that has been brought on by the Age of Reason. It is equally the Age of Wonder as it is the Age of Reason.

Extinguishing The Fear of Hell

Suggestions given to former believers for extinguishing the fear of hell.

Ten Questions to Ask Your Pastor

Questions that are guaranteed to bring up an interesting conversation and a question of faith.

Rebutting The Case For A Creator

In this series, the author of Daylight Atheism will be dissecting Lee Strobel’s book, The Case For A Creator

Chapter 1

Angry Hillbillies

Lee Strobel discusses, but cannot bring himself to condemn, creationists who become irrational and violent over the teaching of evolution.

Facts About VD

Creationists freely admit that their rejection of evolution is based first and foremost on their beliefs about what they would prefer to be true.

Paging Dr. Provine

Strobel implausibly asserts that the truth of evolution requires accepting a specific and complex set of philosophical propositions about morality and the meaning of life.

Chapter 2

Atheist Meterology

If evolution is atheistic because it does not require belief in supernatural intervention, so too is every other field of science.

Authorities

Examining Christians who claim to have deconverted from atheism; also, are Strobel’s handpicked interviewees really “authorities” on evolution?

Pursuing All Possibilities

Does being open-minded require the contemplation of supernatural hypotheses in science?

Chapter 3

Steve Statistics

The NCSE’s “Project Steve” shows that qualified scientists support evolution over creationism 500 to 1.

Meet Jonathan Wells

Strobel’s first interviewee, like many creationists, decided for religious reasons to oppose evolution long before he had any advanced education about it.

Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

Jonathan Wells deploys the “we don’t know, therefore God did it” argument with regards to abiogenesis.

Small Twigs

The origins of modern phyla lie in the Cambrian Explosion, but that is not the same thing as saying that the animals of the Cambrian were radically different from each other.

Beating a Dead Haeckel

Wells and Strobel use the ancient fraud of Ernst Haeckel to argue that any theory which explains the striking similarities in vertebrate embryos must be untrue.

Making Progress Toward a Secular America

This country needs to make the first steps toward a more secular government. At least twenty two congressmen are known to be non-believers. They need to step up and speak for the non-religious. Atheism needs to be portrayed as a positive and acceptable philosophy.

Moving Beyond Awe

Viewing a mystery as a challenge, rather than something to be worshiped in of itself, keeps us from becoming ignorant and frightened. We must move beyond awe

Hooker Hunting In God’s Country

While in Italy, Sarah Braasch, a human rights activist, notices the atrocities of Naples’s prostitution industry. Religion has created a scapegoat for ignoring and being desensitized of human rights violations simply by marking these individuals as filthy insignificants.