October 18, 2020
Will ‘Nones’ Bring a Progressive Future?
Someday, the coronavirus tragedy will be gone, wiped out by scientific vaccines. And Donald Trump will be just an unpleasant memory, an absurd reminder of what can happen when bigotry contaminates democracy.
October 12, 2020
Trust Science
Long ago, I concluded that no reliable evidence supports gods, devils, heavens, hells, miracles, prophecies and other supernatural stuff of religion. Those magic claims simply arise from the human imagination, I assume. Instead, I chose to trust the honest search of science to explain ultimate mysteries of existence.
Babbling in ‘Tongues’
“President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court may rouse debate over the dubious Christian practice of “speaking in tongues,” or glossalalia….” James A. Haught Published in: Argus Observer, Counterpunch, The Chronicle, Sierra County Prospect, Art Voice, Daylight Atheism, Z Net, The Gilmer Mirror, The Good Men Project, Date: September 23,29, October […]
Watching Religion Die
“Religion is fading more quickly in the United States than in any other nation, according to a forthcoming research book.” James A. Haught Published in: Art Voice, Counterpunch, Patheos, LA Progressive, Informed Content, City Watch LA, Black Star News, Patheos, Global Diaspora News, Date: September 10,13,14,16,2020 523 Words For the full article: FacebookTwitteremailSHARE
America’s Ugly Flaw
“Sometimes it seems like we live in a huge loony bin where things make no sense…” James A. Haught Published in: Juan Cole, Patheos, LA Progressive, Counterpunch, Sierra County Prospect, Black News, Gilmer Mirror, Global Diaspora News, Westside Gazette, OpEd News, Medium Date: September 4,5,6,7,8,9,2020 705 Words For the full article: FacebookTwitteremailSHARE
White Christian Bigotry
“Racism is much stronger among America’s white Christians than among churchless whites – and it always has been…” James A. Haught Published in: Counterpunch, LA Progressive, Sierra County Prospect, Gilmer Free Press, Independent Tribune, Progressive Party, The Chronicle Date: August 12,13,17,20,24,2020 514 Words For the full article: FacebookTwitteremailSHARE
The Pandemic Disproves God
“Vice President Mike Pence, a renowned born-again fundamentalist, takes the podium as leader of America’s task force on the Corona crisis…” James A. Haught Published in: Art Voice, The Good Men Project, LA Progressive, Daylight Atheism, Sierra County Prospect, Gilmer Free Press Date: August 5,10,2020 448 Words For the full article: FacebookTwitteremailSHARE
My prayer
“Barely three months from now, the 2020 election may reveal whether America’s white evangelical “religious right” finally is losing political power…” James A. Haught Published in: Times Union, The Wilson Times, New Canaan Adversitser, The Enterprise, Juan Cole, ArtVoice, LA Progressive, The Westside Gazette, Global Diaspora News, Daylight Atheism, OpEd News, Black Star News, The […]
Conservatives lose – and lose – and lose
“This month’s Supreme Court decree that gays cannot be fired from jobs simply because they’re gay is a solid blow to white evangelicals, the heart of the Republican Party…” James A. Haught Published in: Counterpunch, Juan Cole, Counterpunch Date: June 25,26,2020 594 Words For the full article: FacebookTwitteremailSHARE
Problems with Bible classes
“Here in Appalachia’s Bible Belt, conservatives in the Legislature want to force all West Virginia public high schools to teach Bible classes, as occurs in several other Republican-controlled states…” James A. Haught Published in: Art Voice, Counterpunch, OpEd News, Patheos, Canadian Atheist, The Good Men PRoject, The Secular Community, Juan Cole, Free Thought Today Date: […]
Megachurch Mess
“Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey helped create a four-season television series – “Greenleaf” – about a black megachurch where worshipers whoop, sway, dance, wave arms, squeal, shout and shell out truckloads of money…” James A. Haught Published in: Daylight Atheism, OpEd News, The Berlin Daily Sun, Counterpunch, Z Net Date: February 10,15,17,2020 662 Words For […]
Baby Dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark
“In violation of the separation of church and state, American tax dollars are funneled to fundamentalist private schools teaching crackpot absurdities – such as a claim that Noah probably took two baby dinosaurs onto his ark…” James A. Haught Published in: CityWatch LA, Patheos, The Times and Democrat, OpEd News, Counterpunch, Charleston Gazette Mail, The […]
GOP Albatross
“Every schoolchild knows that the Ancient Mariner was forced to wear a dead albatross around his neck. I think America’s Republican Party wears a dying albatross: white evangelicals who are both the GOP’s life-support system and also a curse upon Republicans.” James A. Haught Published in: Bainbridge Island Review, Juan Cole, OpEd News, Patheos, Gilmer […]
Trump as Jim Jones?
“Cults usually are one-man religions. A magnetic, dictatorial, dogmatic, demagogue draws throngs of followers and leads them into lala-land, sometimes dangerously.” Author: James A. Haught Published in: Patheos, Sierra County California Prospect, Bainbridge Island Review, Counterpunch, Juan Cole, Emmitsburg Maryland News-Journal, Gilmer West Virginia Free Press, Smirking Chimp Date: 2019: December 16, 18, 20, 23, […]
Prodding ‘nones’ to vote
“Progressives hope for an America where health care is a human right for everyone — and women’s right to choose remains secure ” Author: Published in: Sierra County California Prospect, Common Dreams, Alternet, Counterpunch, Middletown Pennsylvania Press & Journal, Secular Humanism, Canadian Atheist, Smirking Chimp, Emmitsburg Maryland News Journal Date: 2019, September 8, 9, 10, […]