Tara Mowery is a Secular Activist from Pennsylvania. She has been active member of theAtheist community. She’s a Licensed Nurse. Who has studied the parenting habits of thefaithful and the faithless extensively.

Dr Julian Baggini is the founding editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine. His PhD is on the philosophy of personal identity and he is the author, co-author or editor of over 20 books including The Virtues of the Table, The Ego Trick, Freedom Regained (all published by Granta) and most recently The Edge of Reason (published by Yale University Press). He has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, as well as for the think tanks, The Institute of Public Policy Research, Demos and Counterpoint. He has also appeared as a character in two Alexander McCall-Smith novels.

Since the Free Will versus Determinism debate has arisen in several recent episodes, it was really great to talk with an expert in the field. Dr Baggini really was great fun and enormously informative.

If there is still anyone left who hasn’t yet read The Faithless Feminist blog, there is some really wonderful material there. We recommend that highly and we were very lucky to be able to talk with the author, Karen Garst, about her new book …

We recently had a fantastic discussion with the very funny and very wonderful Aron Ra. It was such a lot of fun. 

Aron Ra is a secular activist advocating reason in education. He serves as Texas State Director of American Atheists, and hosts the Ra-Men podcast with Dan Arel and Mark Nebo of BeSecular. Aron is also heading the Phylogeny Explorer Project, an effort to render the entire evolutionary tree of life as a navigable online encyclopedia. He is best known for his video series exposing the Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism.

Today we are posting the really fascinating discussion that we had with Dr Richard Carrier about Jesus Mythicism. Some or all of this conversation may have been influenced by Mr Jameson’s Finest Podcast Juice but it was a lot of fun. 

Richard Carrier is a world-renowned author and speaker. As a professional historian, published philosopher, and prominent defender of the American freethought movement, Dr. Carrier has appeared across the U.S., Canada and the U.K., and on American television and London radio, defending sound historical methods and the ethical worldview of secular naturalism. His books and articles have received international attention. With a Ph.D. from Columbia University in ancient history, he specializes in the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, particularly ancient philosophy, religion, and science, with emphasis on the origins of Christianity and the use and progress of science under the Roman empire. He is also a published expert in the modern philosophy of naturalism as a worldview. He is the author of On the Historicity of Jesus, Proving History, Sense and Goodness without God, Science Education in the Early Roman Empire, Not the Impossible Faith, Why I Am Not a Christian, and Hitler Homer Bible Christ, and a contributor to The Empty Tomb, The Christian Delusion, The End of Christianity, and Christianity Is Not Great, as well as copious work in history and philosophy, online and in print. He is currently working on several projects, but also teaching affordable online courses in secular philosophy, history, and methodology at The Secular Academy, and blogging and speaking about history, philosophy, feminism, and other moral causes, as well as his past in the military and his current life in polyamory.

We cover the most excellent blog post that Seamus recently published and also the case of Ibrahim Halawa.

http://thefreethoughtprophet.com/2016/09/05/mass-media-murder-a-look-at-the-mass-media-and-mass-murder-connection/

Our Parallel Look at The Gospels, with some extra rambling. The Gosepels are supposed to be a linear view of the life and times of Jesus Christ. Yet when you look objectively and in a parallel manner, they contradict each other to say the least.

Our Parallel Look at The Gospels, with some extra rambling. The Gosepels are supposed to be a linear view of the life and times of Jesus Christ. Yet when you look objectively and in a parallel manner, they contradict each other to say the least.

Dr. Robert M Price returns to talk Comic Books and the crossover of religion onto the pages of Marvle DC and more!

For Dr. Price's Bio:

http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/bio.htm

Jason Colavito is an author and editor based in Albany, NY. He is internationally recognized by scholars, literary theorists, and scientists for his pioneering work exploring the connections between science, pseudoscience, and speculative fiction. His investigations examine the way human beings create and employ the supernatural to alter and understand our reality and our world.

He has published several books including The Cult of Alien Gods: H.P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture (Prometheus Books, 2005); Knowing Fear: Science, Knowledge, and the Development of the Horror Genre (McFarland, 2008); and Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages (McFarland, 2014). In 2011, Colavito launched his own line of print-on-demand books collecting rare texts about alternative history, the occult, and speculative fiction.

Colavito appeared on Codes & Conspiracies on the American Heroes Channel in 2015 to offer expert commentary on the ancient astronaut theory and its impact on science, pseudoscience, and popular culture. Colavito's research on extraterrestrials and H. P. Lovecraft was also featured on the History Channel in 2009, and he has provided research assistance and consulted on such programs as Secret History of UFOs (NatGeo), Monster Quest (History Channel), Ancient X-Files (NatGeo UK), and William Shatner’s Weird or What? (History Television Canada/NatGeo UK).

Colavito began debunking fringe science and revisionist history in the web-based magazine Lost Civilizations Uncovered in 2001. Since then, his work has appeared in Skeptic magazine, Humanist Network News, Swift, The Canadian, and TVTome and other outlets. Colavito has also worked as a consultant for major museums, both public and private.

In addition to nonfiction writing, Colavito has also authored several short stories. Colavito’s speculative fiction has appeared in a number of outlets, including the anthologies 2012 AD (Severed Press, 2010), Elements of Horror (Elements of Horror Press, 2010), and Letters from the Dead (Library of the Dead Press, 2010), as well as magazines such as Twisted Dreams.

Colavito holds a Bachelor of Arts from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York where he majored in both anthropology and journalism. A summa cum laude graduate, Colavito was recognized as the Distinguished Graduate in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, and he was made the Jessica Savitch Communications Scholar for his work in journalism. In 2004, Colavito placed his first professionally published article, "Charioteer of the Gods," in Skeptic magazine. Shortly thereafter he sold his first book, The Cult of Alien Gods, to Prometheus Books.