Adam Lee
Patheos
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Adam:
Reminder: The Church Still Hates Gay People
Christian churches haven't made their peace with LGBTQ equality, and they're lashing out at a world that's leaving them in the dust. → Read More
The New Atheism Is Dead, Long Live Atheism
I don’t think the New Atheist critique of religion was wrong or unnecessary or mean-spirited, but I deplore the baggage that came along for the ride. → Read More
Do Trump Supporters Deserve Our Charity?
We can't possibly help everyone in need. Who has the better claim on our compassion? → Read More
Is Social Media Making Everything Worse?
If you're getting a service for free, you're not the customer, you're the product. → Read More
The Twilight of American Evangelicals
Even as white evangelical Christians bask in short-term victories, the future is slipping away from them a lot faster than they think. → Read More
On the Edge of Climate Catastrophe
This was the greatest test humanity has ever faced, and it looks more and more like we're going to fail it. → Read More
#FamiliesBelongTogether
This weekend, I went to one of the 600+ nationwide protests against our fascist presidential administration’s policy of splitting up families at the border. This one was held at the Rockville Centre train station on Long Island. It was a blazing hot day, but the crowd was large – I’m guessing about 400 to 500 … → Read More
The Astounding Hypocrisy of Anti-Refugee Christians, Continued
The moral difference between the nonreligious and the wicked xenophobia of white Christians is almost literally night and day. → Read More
Congratulations, Ireland! #RepealedThe8th
Irish voters blow away one of the last dark clouds of Catholic theocracy that lingered over their country. → Read More
Why Are Big-Name Atheists So Bad at Taking Criticism?
For someone who makes reason and rationality an aspect of their identity, the idea that their reasoning is faulty can be deeply threatening. → Read More
The Least Christian Generation in American History
The generation after the Millennials will be the first to grow up in a world where Christianity wasn't the dominant cultural power. → Read More
The Nashville Statement: Christians Haven't Learned Anything
This is going to devastate their numbers in the decades to come, and it's entirely a self-inflicted wound. → Read More
The Coming Clean Energy Future
We may have already reached a point where fossil fuels are doomed and renewables are destined to replace them, purely on the basis of economics. → Read More
Has the Atheist Movement Lost Its Way?
The crude and bigoted behavior of high-profile atheists is real, but it's not the whole story. → Read More
On Human Negativity Bias
Why people are so eager to believe the worst. → Read More
The Injustices of the American Justice System
Again and yet again, America is bleeding. The latest eruption of protests and anger came in response to the brutal, unnecessary police killings of two black men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, and then the carnage in Dallas where a deranged sniper killed five police officers and wounded more before being killed in turn. Whether any of this will spur reform, or whether violence will only… → Read More
Businesses are powerful allies on LGBT rights. The left should embrace them
There is reticence among some activists to join with corporate behemoths. But why turn them down when their interests chime with ours? → Read More
Is Addiction a Moral Failing?
Something that, as an atheist, I always insist upon is that we are biochemical machines. There’s no spooky, supernatural ghost in the machine directing our bodies, no Cartesian Theater where the nervous system feeds into a single ineffable locus of consciousness. Our thoughts and our desires arise from patterns of electrochemical activity in our heads, … → Read More
Are we ready to face death without religion?
A rise in atheist funerals shows that fewer of us need to rely on faith when confronted with mortality → Read More
4 Things the Atheist Movement Has Done Badly (and How to Do Them Better)
The atheist community has a lamentable tendency to make the same mistakes over and over. → Read More