Welcome to the Rational Supply Co. blog — a home for freethinkers, skeptics, atheists, agnostics, and secular humanists who like their ideas straight. We write about philosophy, history, science, and secular living: the big questions, the bad arguments, and the quiet satisfaction of figuring things out for yourself.
2,300 years ago, a Greek philosopher concluded that the gods don’t intervene in human lives, death is nothing to fear, and happiness is simpler than we think.
Were the Founding Fathers Christian? One side says absolutely yes, the other absolutely no. The real answer is messier — and more useful — than either.
Atheism tells you what someone doesn’t believe. It says almost nothing about how they live or what they value. There are better labels out there.
“What have you got to lose?” Pascal’s Wager sounds logical at first. It has been falling apart under scrutiny for four hundred years.
Nearly 1 in 3 Americans is now religiously unaffiliated. But atheism only tells you what you don’t believe. Secular humanism tells you how to live.
“But how will they know right from wrong?” It’s the question every secular parent dreads. Decades of research have a surprisingly clear answer.
