March 11, 2008 – 11:39 am
From Boing Boing’s Vatican comes up with a new list of Seven Sins: “In the sixth century, Pope Gregory handed down a list of ’seven cardinal vices.’ Now the Vatican has issued an additional seven ’social sins.’” [Included on the list are using birth control, conducting stem cell experiments, drug abuse, polluting the environment, increasing [...]
March 10, 2008 – 11:45 am
From Alternet’s Theocracy Rejected: Former Christian Right Leaders ‘Fess up: “Frank Schaeffer, John Whitehead and Cal Thomas have repudiated the theocratic movement they once led. Here’s why.”
September 11, 2007 – 12:16 pm
A man sits down to begin writing a book in which the main character is God. This man is not one of those people who wants to write a book and then does not, nor is he one of those people who writes a book and then sticks it in a drawer, and nor is [...]
In Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomenon, Daniel Dennett summarizes his process of evolutionary investigation with the “stock Latin phrase, ‘cui bono?,’ which means ‘Who benefits from this?’” (62). The basic idea is that one can best approach an evolutionary mystery by first determining who or what is the beneficiary of the equipment or [...]
The 20 Best “That Guys” Of All Time: Let me say that I think #1 doesn’t belong on the list, having transcended ‘that guy’ status, that #3 should be #1, and that #6 should be #2, and that #2 doesn’t belong in the top 5.
Man Clad In Underwear Pins Leopard: “A man clad only in [...]
April 26, 2007 – 11:50 am
Can “neurotheology” bridge the gap between religion and science?: “Donning chain-mail hoods of electrodes and contemplating universal peace and love, the [Tibetan] monks [including the Dalia Lama] show EEG patterns that appeared to be laced with higher than normal levels of gamma waves—even after they stopped meditating. These higher-frequency vibrations have been proposed as a [...]
November 1, 2006 – 01:47 pm
In Tired of all the religious garbage? It’s time to become an Enlightenist, Muriel Gray tries to back away from any debate about theism and atheism, and writes, “Enlightenists believe in the awe-inspiring, wonder, beauty and complexity of the universe, and aspire to unpick its mysteries by reason, constant questioning, observation, experiment, and analysis of [...]
Le Monde has published the letter that Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wrote to American President, George W. Bush. Ahmadinejad begins, “For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions that exist in the international arena…These have prompted me to discuss some of the contradictions and questions, in the hopes that [...]
March 27, 2006 – 11:41 am
The Christian Science Monitor is reporting that Georgia may OK Bible as textbook. The move would make the state “the first to require its Department of Education to put in place a curriculum to teach the history and literature of the Bible.”
February 21, 2006 – 07:33 pm
The U.S. Supreme Court came back with rulings on a bunch of different cases today, some of which I agree with and some of which I don’t . Let’s take a look at them, shall we?
The Good
In Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal,, the Court ruled that the a small church in [...]
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