Fluid Imagination Is My Rooftop
“The most important thing is coming out of the closet.”
Atheism and Public Transport
From NY Times’s Atheists Send a Message, on 800 British Buses: “…the Atheist Bus Campaign [is] an effort to disseminate a godless message to the greater public. When the organizers announced the effort in October, they said they hoped to raise a modest $8,000 or so. But something seized people’s imagination. Supported by the scientist [...]
Obama’s Faith
From BeliefNet’s Obama’s Fascinating Interview with Cathleen Falsani: “The most detailed and fascinating explication of Barack Obama’s faith came in a 2004 interview he gave Chicago Sun Times columnist Cathleen Falsani when he was running for U.S. Senate in Illinois. The column she wrote about the interview has been quoted and misquoted many times over, [...]
On the ‘modernity of tradition’
From Tunku Varadarajan’s Fly Me to the Deity: “An unmanned spacecraft from India — that most worldly and yet otherworldly of nations — is on its way to the moon. For the first time since man and his rockets began trespassing on outer space, a vessel has gone up from a country whose people actually [...]
Green Mountain Blasphemy
From the Rutland Herald’s Vermonters less religious than rest of nation: “A new poll suggests that people in Vermont and New Hampshire are less religious than those in other states. The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, released last month by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, found that people in the two northern New [...]
Vatican comes up with a new list of Seven Sins
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 [...]
Theocracy Rejected: Former Christian Right Leaders ‘Fess up
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.”
A Generous Spirit
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 [...]
Of Dawkins, Darwin, Dennett, and the Deity
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 [...]
Links for May 29, 2007
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 [...]
