"I'm an atheist... Eric is in the ground, rotting."

"I know it sounds horrible to say that, but that is where he is. How is that a better place?" "I was searching frantically fo...

"The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens."

"There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows. "

Email from John Kerry: "I have one message burned into my memory..."

What?! I can't believe Kerry would evoke his old "memory which is seared — seared — in me" line. If you don't have that se...

"Mitt and Ann Romney’s marriage is strong because they believe they will live together in an eternal afterlife..."

Writes Jodi Kantor in the NYT, citing "relatives and friends" as the source of information. It's a whole long article about M...

The 8 ghosts that haunt "Dreams From My Father."

This is the second in a series of posts based on the search for a single word in Barack Obama's memoir "Dreams From My Father....

"77% Believe Jesus Rose From the Dead."

Is that likely voters? What's the margin of error? Rasmussen has a poll. Seventy-eight percent (78%) think Jesus was the son of God. Six...

"Tripoli Zoo: Libyan Lions Left Behind."

A HuffPo headline suggests the notion of a Rapture for animals. If there were a Rapture for animals, which animals would be left behind? I...

Mark Halperin called Obama "a dick" and now he says "I can’t explain why I did it."

He's apologized, but I don't care. I want him to explain why he did it. Why is he editor-in-large at Time if he can't explain t...

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail."

"There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." Says Stephen Haw...

"Google Introduces New Computer-Like Object, Where Everything Happens On the Web."

Oh? Great. Benefit? It's a neat idea. Drawback? Do you feel lucky? Well, I'm not feeling lucky with Google this week. I'd like ...

Crazy Daily News headline: "President Obama hits church with First Family in bid to altar 'Muslim' myth."

Quite aside from the (deliberate?) misspelling — "altar" for "alter" — and the repetition of the "myth" — whic...

"I regard the afterlife as a fairy story for people who are afraid of the dark."

"Maybe there'll be window in heaven where he can watch Nixon slowly roasting on a spit."

The first comment on the Gawker post "Journalist Daniel Schorr Dies at 93."

"Watch J.J. Abrams Say 'Lost' Is Not About That Thing It Turned Out to Sort of Be About."

"We're sure in the weeks to come, there will be lots of discussion about the distinctions between 'purgatory' and 'heav...

There are 2 reactions to the knowledge that we're all going to die.

"One: religion. You create an afterlife. Now I think it's a good idea, it makes people calmer. And then there's humor. At its b...

Why believe in a religion? Why not believe in 2 or 3 or more?

And throw in astrology and ghosts while you're at it. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a report [that]... points out t...

If the "cross in the dirt" story were true, wouldn't a good Christian have "witnessed" to it early on?

In this Bloggingheads clip, Bob Wright and I refer to different aspects of Christianity (and talk about this Andrew Sullivan post ). (At the...

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Climb up out of the parking garage and catch the first glimpse: At the end of a sunlit hallway: The interior of the cathedral has a design r...

Marriage in heaven? Opinions vary.

Assuming heaven, how can there be marriage in heaven ? If you had the power to design heaven, would you have everyone eternally married to w...

Heaven and earth...

... they seem so disconnected sometimes.