Author: Stephen Uhl
Stephen Uhl was predestined by his mother to become a priest. Ten years into the priesthood, this former believer’s doubts caused his divorce from the priesthood and the Church. On earning a PhD in psychology, Uhl enjoyed a thriving private psychology practice until retirement. He is the author of Out of God’s Closet: This Priest Psychologist Chooses Friendly Atheism (Golden Rule Publishers, 2010), from which this article is excerpted.
Secular Humanism is Atheism
Toward the end of a recent phone visit with my youngest brother, I asked him (totally out of context and with this essay in mind), “What is a secular humanist?” Now, he is an articulate and experienced man of the world with a very broad background, but he was at a loss for words for …
Why Most People Believe in the Supernatural
In September 2005, Rita, a huge Category 5 hurricane, was bearing down on Texas’s Gulf shores. The desperately frightened Texas governor ordered over a million people to make their exodus inland. After issuing historically dire warnings to these anxious citizens, the good governor told them to “say a prayer for Texas.” One of our oldest …