Executions, heresy trials, and sectarian wars — and why “restoration” is the wrong word SummaryChristian nationalists say they are not establishing religion but restoring America’s original Christian character. Colonial history answers that claim directly. What Christian public power actually produced was sectarian infighting, state-backed coercion, banishments, heresy trials, and executions. The founders built secular government […]
Why We Have to Fight Christian Disinformation and Encroachment Now
SummaryChristian disinformation is not harmless opinion. It is a strategy for reshaping public reality so that one religion can claim special authority over law, schools, and civil life. If it goes unchallenged, it stops being rhetoric and becomes policy. This is not a misunderstanding A lot of secular people still treat Christian-nationalist rhetoric like background […]
Is Atheism a Religion? Only When It’s Politically Convenient
SummaryChristians can’t agree whether atheism is a religion—but the pattern is obvious. When calling atheism a religion helps restrict secular voices, it’s a religion. When denying atheism First Amendment protections helps Christian power, suddenly it isn’t. The argument isn’t about truth; it’s about control. Two opposite claims from the same camp You can watch the […]
Why Untestable Faith Cannot Rule a Secular Country
SummaryWhen Christians say “You can’t disprove God,” they think they’re defending their faith. What they’re really admitting is that nothing could ever show their God—or His rules—are wrong. That might be fine for private belief, but it makes faith utterly unfit as a basis for public law. “You can’t disprove God” – what that really […]
When False Religions “Work” Just as Well as True Ones
Summary Religions all over the world claim exclusive truth, yet mutually contradictory faiths produce the same conviction, transformation, and “evidence.” That tells us something crucial: religious success does not track religious truth. It tracks how well a belief system meets human needs. Religions don’t have to be true to be believed Walk into a mosque […]
No, America Was Not Founded as a Christian Nation
SummaryChristian nationalists love to claim the United States was founded as a Christian nation. The text that actually creates the government says otherwise. The godless Constitution and the First Amendment’s ban on religious establishment are not oversights—they are the clearest evidence that the founders chose a secular republic over a Christian one. The myth: “Christian […]
Your Bible Doesn’t Get to Control My Pregnancy
In the United States, abortion law is not just about medicine or “life.” It’s about whether the Christian Right gets to crawl up inside everyone else’s body and stay there by force. The politicians pushing bans are not offering careful bioethics; they are offering obedience to a particular reading of a particular scripture, dressed up […]
Why Christian Extremism Is a Greater Threat to America Than Muslim Extremism
If you judged by headlines and campaign speeches, you’d think “radical Islam” was the one great religious threat to America’s safety and freedom. But when you look at who actually holds power, writes laws, captures courts, and talks openly about ruling “by God’s law,” the picture is very different. The most serious religious threat to […]
Beyond Belief: America’s Founding Documents Shield Atheists Too
America’s founding documents, read in their historical context and using standard originalist tools, support constitutional protection for atheism. Properly understood, the “freedom of religion” in the First Amendment is a species of a broader freedom of conscience, and that principle applies whether conscience leads someone to belief or to unbelief. I. The Founding Texts and […]
The Fallacy of “Choosing” To Be Christian
SummaryChristians often say they “chose” God—as if belief were the outcome of a neutral, adult search. In reality, most people’s religion is decided long before they can evaluate evidence: by family, geography, social pressure, and the cost of leaving. When Christian nationalists insist that Christianity is just a harmless personal choice, they erase those forces—and […]