Mess Mutual
Whether you reside overseas or in the U.S. if you have a traditional IRA or a 401(k) account, upon reaching age 70 1/2 you may have to start taking required minimum distributions from your account on...
View ArticleJewish Alt- Right Sympathizers, Trump, and Charlottesville
It should come as no surprise that President Trump had to be dragged into finally criticizing the white nationalist violence that broke out at the Aug. 12 Charlottesville rally. But he then muddied...
View ArticleAtheism and Gratitude
There's a false impression among many (most?) god-believers that atheists can't feel the emotion of gratitude because we don't consider a supreme being as a source for the ''gift of life'',...
View ArticleHer Bias Is Showing
As per the title of this blog site, my posts are usually oriented towards matters regarding the U.S.and Judaism. However, I'm taking a side trip here to review an opinion column from a newspaper in...
View ArticleWhy "God" Is Irrelevant to Our Understanding of the Universe
An argument for the existence of God is that life on Earth--and matter itself--could not possibly have come into being unless the universe were structured just right.This belief is based on the...
View ArticleWould the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life Clash with God-Belief?
A friend of mine commented that if the space object Oumuamua now whizzing through our solar system were proven to be a probe from a civilization in another star system as had at one point been...
View ArticleAn Atheist's Perspective on Accepting Reality
As is likely the case with many other seniors, I often consider (but don't dwell on) my mortality. I know that there's a chance that I could live into my 90's as did my maternal grandfather. But the...
View ArticleCan Atheists Work Together with God-believers for a Common Cause?
The following originally appeared as a response to a post in "Atheist Revolution" on a different subject but I slightly revised it to discuss the following related issue.. In theory, atheists and...
View ArticleRuthlessness And Religion
A few nights ago, my wife Lydia and I went out to dinner at a restaurant down the street from our residence. About halfway through the meal Lydia got a small piece of shrimp shell stuck in her...
View ArticleA Special Anniversary
The following is a sligthtly revised version of my response to the "Atheist Revolution" blog post "Why Can't You Keep Your Atheism to Yourself?" Aug. 27 marks my 14th year of living as a retired...
View ArticleWhy Is This Major Source of Global Warming Being Ignored?
Global warming is not a burning issue (no pun intended.) for me. This is not because I don't believe that anthropogenic climate change is a menace to humankind. It certainly is. But for one thing as...
View ArticleWho's In Charge Here?
Like many other people, I have lived in places and taken jobs that I wound up hating. Yet with some exceptions, such as my childhood location of residence about which of course I had no choice in...
View ArticleAn Atheist's Perspective In Dealing With COVID-19
I certainly can't claim to speak for all other atheists. But in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. my guess is that in trying to make sense of its existence and the worldwide havoc that it has...
View ArticleForgive Trumpsters? Forget It
Now that Joe Biden has won the 2020 presidential election, I've been hearing a lot from various sources including the president-elect himself about the need for the American people to reunite and let...
View ArticleCan America Really Recover from the Trump Era?
As a result of four years of Trumpism culminating in an attempt by President Trump and his followers to viciously overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, American democracy has been...
View ArticleWhat The F--k Is the Matter With These People?
The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected the minds of many Americans who've never even had the disease i.e. in terms of their reaction to the virus' mere existence which many of them refuse to...
View ArticleOn Saying "No" To Unfounded Faith
Recently, a friend of mine referred to me an article from the "Wall street Journal" (Sept. 23, 2021) attacking atheism. The author, Michael Guillen, is a former athiest and regrets having been one....
View ArticleWhy a God Is Not Needed In Dealing With Life
As I have submitted in my previous posts on the topic of atheism, there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being. In this discussion, I'd also like to point out that such an...
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