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.
Most of us know someone—a brilliant engineer, a sharp-witted aunt, a doctor who saves lives for a living—who also holds a belief that seems, on its face, hard to square […]
“Best of” podcast lists are everywhere, and most of them are the same ten shows copy-pasted from each other, ranked by whoever has the most Apple reviews. That’s not this […]
For centuries, the Bible was used to defend slavery — and the people defending it weren’t misreading it. Here’s the argument that finally proved stronger than scripture.
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.
