Author: Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards is a frequent contributor to FREE INQUIRY and Skeptic magazines. He is the author, under the pseudonym of “S.C. Hitchcock,” of Disbelief 101: A Young Person’s Guide to Atheism (See Sharp Press, 2009, to be released in Poland in 2011). His new book is Spiritual Snake Oil: Fads and Fallacies in Pop Culture (See Sharp Press, 2011).
A Revolutionary Syllogism
Some politically minded Christians, having scoured the American Constitution and found neither the word God nor the word of God, have settled on the reference to a “ Creator” that appears in the Declaration of Independence as a wedge to drive home their larger point that the United States is a Christian nation. These Christians …
Is Hell Illegal? The Implications of the Warren Jeffs Decision
In September 2007, a jury in Utah found Warren Jeffs, a Mormon-fundamentalist religious leader, guilty of being an accomplice to child rape. The trial was a bit of a sideshow—and for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), which has desperately been trying to jettison the facets of its doctrine that are …