Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

Christians risk becoming utterly irrelevant in their own culture if they continue to seperate people into “We the Saved” and “They the Damned”. Again, I ask, do we need Jesus to protect us from God?...

Whether you believe in God or are an atheist, you cannot deny that the empirical facts of science have nothing to do with whether or not freedom and good are real or worth destroying ourselves...

Hell was never God’s intention. It is man’s invention. It is a human-manufactured religious icon, no less idolatrous than deifying a statue.

I do believe in hell as a state of being or consciousness, and I believe that people can dwell in hell and that many do, right now, today, on this earth before rather than after...

…the operative idea here is that there is a right and wrong theology — a right God and a wrong God. But this is an invalid premise. All versions of God are the same thing:...

The God to whom I was introduced as a child was basically a Jewish one: male, fatherly, Anglo-European, bearded, angrily loving, judgmental, righteously indignant,mand frighteningly powerful, not to mention present everywhere and all-knowing. In trying...