Review "On Being Certain challenges our understanding of the very nature of thought and provokes readers to ask what Burton calls “the most basic of questions”: How do we know what we know?”--Scientific American Mind “In his brilliant new book, Burton systematically and convincingly shows that certainty is a mental state, a feeling like anger or pride that can help guide us, but that doesn't dependably reflect objective truth… In the polarizing atmosphere of the 2008 election, On Being Certa

Podcast featuring Dale McGowan on secular responses to children's questions concerning life after death.

This blog shares the personal account of a person who left their religion. Full of insights and common sense. Apostates will understand that their new lives are pregnant with happiness and fulfillment.

An evangelical tells his personal story. Many insights into the born again mindset. The person writing is British.

Dan Barker's classic narrative. Here is excerpt of Chapter 4 of his book Losing Faith in Faith. I Just Lost Faith In Faith This was my first article for Freethought Today. It ran in the June 1984 issue. Religion is a powerful thing. Few can resist its charms and few can truly break its embrace. It is the siren who entices the wandering traveler with songs of love and desire and, once successful, turns a mind into stone. It is a Venus fly trap. Its attraction is like that of drugs to an

Leaving the Fold is a documentary film about young Hassidic and ultra-Orthodox Jews in Montreal, New York and Israel who try to free themselves from a colorful yet repressed community because they can no longer tolerate living in the constricted world in which they were born. They are prepared to turn their backs on their relationships with their parents, their siblings and their sheltered community to make their way into secular society...and our baffling world of endless choices. Category: