Author Archives: Marc Alan Di Martino

About Marc Alan Di Martino

I'm a skeptical poet, blogger, columnist, occasional cartoonist, atheist, kvetcher and all-around lovable mensch - in precisely that order. I live in Italy, a country in serious need of skeptics and secularists who will challenge the status quo. Kind of like the United States and most places on earth.

We are atheists

Posted on September 2, 2012

The UAAR has a new page featuring profiles of individual atheists on their website called “Ecco gli atei!” It was inspired directly by the FFRF’s “This is what an atheist looks like” campaign. My profile is up (in Italian). If … Continue reading →

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Which religion is it?

Posted on July 5, 2012

The church bills itself as the one “true” Christian faith, and its theology promises families eternal relationships among those who remain faithful, sealing those gifts through special religious rites. Among the reasons cited by those resigning are the church’s political … Continue reading →

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Illiteracy

Illiteracy

Ain’t it true?

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Sin City!

Posted on May 27, 2012

Every time another Vatican scandal crops up in the news this song begins playing automatically in my head.

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A really good pain in the ass

Posted on May 21, 2012

I’m reading an excellent book on critical thinking by Christopher DiCarlo called How to Be a Really Good Pain in the Ass. I heard an interview with him on Freethought Radio (I’m sensing a trend), and I thought I’d check it … Continue reading →

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The Locust Tree in Flower

Posted on May 18, 2012

Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again – William Carlos Williams

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Shelley Segal – “Saved”

Posted on May 15, 2012

I just heard this song on a Freethought Radio podcast from a few weeks ago (I’m behind on my listening) and liked it immediately. I even like the lyrics, which remind me so much of the debates I have with … Continue reading →

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The Christian Life

Posted on May 14, 2012

I love this song despite – or perhaps because of – its boozy Christian sentiment. It makes me feel like I just stumbled into an Oklahoma leather bar full of Jehovah’s Witnesses (or something). Here’s a lyric that makes me … Continue reading →

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We are wonderful

Posted on May 11, 2012

There is a recent story in the NYT about child sexual abuse in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn. It seems that when parents of abused children – who were abused in places like the mikveh, or ritual bath-house, and in religious … Continue reading →

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Those crazy pagans

Posted on May 9, 2012

Jesus and Mo. Ophelia. Lulz.

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