Skeptical Observations

The word “Jew” is odd enough considered merely as a phonetic phenomenon; it gets even funnier when you try to figure out exactly what it mea...

Attempted intrusions into the “comments” section by abusive visitors have compelled me to introduce, to my regret, moderation of comments. ...

The bright side of natural disasters: they always bring us prophets! Eyjafjallajökull; photograph by Reuters from Telegraph.co.uk R...

Got a Torah passage that says something morally repugnant? No problem: just deny that it means what it says! As I strive to catch up w...

The right-wing evangelical defamation of Voodoo does not end with the misrepresentation of the Bois Caïman gathering as a Satanic pact: it ...

As envisaged by Tom Tomorrow : I don’t think it adds much to the discussion, but it’s a nice break from the long and involved disquisit...

The idea that the nation of Haiti was born of a pact with the devil, far from being Pat Robertson’s invention, is a libel widely circulated ...

What is wrong with what Robertson said is what is wrong with a great deal of religious thinking. Explaining wherein the fault lies is not ea...