Monday, November 29, 2010

On Wolves and Poodles.

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'not all speciation was caused by mutations'- Beliefnet : 6. How did these 'losses' become fixed in a population? (Rememb...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

Ontological Emergence

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Emergent Properties (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) : "Whether there are any instances of ontological emergence is highly controv...
Friday, November 26, 2010

U.S. divorce rates: for various faith groups, age groups and geographical areas

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U.S. divorce rates: for various faith groups, age groups and geographical areas : "Barna report: Variation in divorce rates among Chris...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Religious Myth as Wisdom?

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Joy and Wisdom? - Beliefnet : "[Materialists and rationalists are] a small subset of atheists here, albeit a noisy one. I suspect th...

The Value of Religion in a Scientific Age.

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In a Scientific Age is Religion a Hereditary Delusion? - Beliefnet : "The spiritual, actually religious component, of human history ...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Joy and Wisdom, and Purpose.

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Joy and Wisdom? - Beliefnet : "As I never had the problem of living with God myths and life after death worries, I discovered both jo...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Spiritual Exercises

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Spiritual Exercises | A Sermon by Forrest Church : "3. Pray for someone you hate. Hatred stokes the mind’s satanic mills, but it is n...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

On Fairies, Pots of Gold and Astrology

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "If you could explain what I should reject for all of the above I might be able to answer your quest...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

Religious history.

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How Religion conquered Science - Beliefnet : I wouldn't hesitate in agreeing that human beings throughout history have been driven by ...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Sexual Maturity

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Christian Preschool and Daphne: - Beliefnet : "Perhaps the confusion is the focus on sexuality. That is the focus of any relationshi...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Atheists and Jesus

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "The sin of Sodom that got it destroyed by God was inhospitality. In a desert community refusing ho...

Atheists and Jesus

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Atheists and Jesus -- Beliefnet : "Since the God Jesus was referring to was a personal God not subject to anyone else's approval ...

Men are Dumb.

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The Fruit of the Teaching "Males are Superior" - Beliefnet : Men are dumb. Very dumb. Dar "Probably one of the major caus...

The rough patches in life.

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Pulling at the threads - Beliefnet : "Most of my University educated friends don't reach for history books or religious works to ...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Atheists and Jesus

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "You need to strip the God from Jesus the man, and the stage magic that was his stock in trade, the...

God's All-loving Nature. Not

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God - Tales of Mere Existence - Beliefnet : "As someone who has put serious effort into understanding God I have come to a quite diff...
Saturday, November 6, 2010

Atheists and Jesus - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "It is perhaps useful to understand the background and biases of the creator of the entity, but you...

Atheists and Jesus - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "Kermit the Frog, Jubal Hartshaw, Jesus, and God are well defined, consistently portrayed (at least ...
Friday, November 5, 2010

US Politics and the Third World

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As you know I was active in the Obama and health care campaigns. It turned out he was just another Chicago politician. He had the votes fo...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Blag Hag: Ripping MS -ogyny

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Blag Hag: Does the media really care where the atheist women are? : The main article is an incredibly good response to a MS(ogyny) article...

Atheists and Jesus

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "I think it is important to recognize in any discussion of Jesus by atheists that we are dealing wit...

Fighting Two Fronts - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community

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Fighting Two Fronts - Beliefnet From a generally useless thread: "For those for whom God is the awe-ful, controlling big daddy (alw...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Lust, Commitment, and Morality

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Question about Actions and Consequence - Beliefnet : "The difficulty here is that unfortunately bullying is one of the social contrac...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Morals without God?

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Morals without God? - Beliefnet : "How could [morality not follow current fashion.} Morality is the genetic propensity of an intelli...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Atheists and Jesus

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Atheists and Jesus - Beliefnet : "Atheists arguing about the existence of Jesus or the 'truth' in the Gospels among themselve...
Friday, October 15, 2010

The Intellectual Poverty of Rationalism

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Antitheism? - Beliefnet : "If a rationalist is unable to suspend disbelief as claimed to enjoy a learning experience or even a rollic...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Conundrums

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There Is No God - Beliefnet : "There is no materialist conundrum. WE are not the ones having a problem with a god - we simply don...

Theodicy

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There Is No God - Beliefnet : Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Morality as Face Group

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Please Critique My Idea Of God - Beliefnet : "Managing my life for the good of my chosen society is more basic than a call by God on ...
Monday, October 11, 2010

The Christian's Problem

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Richard Dawkins Thread v2.0 - Beliefnet : "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burk...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Paul's sins

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Sex and spirituality. - Beliefnet : "I do blame Paul. He needed a bunch of sins that people could adopt to consider themselves sinne...

Gender Definitions.

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Sex and spirituality. - Beliefnet : "In defining what constitutes gender I suspect I am an apostate to the traditional males, althoug...

Common Religious Morality

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The Bright Line... - Beliefnet Community : "There is no common religious conclusion on morality. Each ignorant man, noting the benef...

World-Views

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Why do they believe? - Discuss Atheism - Beliefnet Community : "What is a world-view if not the way we operate in and react to realit...

Abstinance

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Protest the Pope - Beliefnet : So ... you think that The Bishop of Rome is WRONG about 'Abstinence' ... teilhard "Complete...

Paradise

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Life after death? - Beliefnet : "Then you had better build Paradise here and now while you are alive to enjoy it. Select your friend...

Using the Bible

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Romans 1:27 - Beliefnet : "I use the Bible to try to understand the context of my friends' thinking. I don't really care abo...

Midwest Cuisine cooking

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The Tea House - Beliefnet : "I grew up in Toledo OH along with Gael Greene food columnist for the New Yorker. She summed up Toledo a...

Asparagus

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The Tea House - Beliefnet : "One of the veggies I hated most as a small child was asparagus. My dad grew it, we would lovingly harve...

On Wicked Hearts

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Romans 1:27 - Beliefnet : "Thank you for asking. I not only deny that the human heart is deceitfully wicked, but I hold anyone teach...

The Ice Cream Diet

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The Tea House - Beliefnet : "At one point in my life I was packing on some 'swivel chair spread' keeping up with my teen age ...

Tough Times and Atheism

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Separating truth from superstition - Beliefnet : "As for the tough times, even smart, tough, atheists run into them. It is called li...

Learning from Religions

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Separating truth from superstition - Beliefnet : "Picking and choosing among religious beliefs is not only tolerable it is the only w...

Atheist Belief Systems?

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How many flavors are there? - Beliefnet : "In a lifetime of living as an atheist, and primarily with atheists, I have yet to find any...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Atheists, agnostics know more about religion than believers

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Atheists, agnostics know more about religion than believers, finds US survey : "A new survey, which measured Americans' knowledge...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Inherent Morality

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The Bright Line... - Beliefnet : it is 'The Point' consider this: before you or I or anyone ( indigenous tribes included), can ...

Becoming Atheist

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The Bright Line... - Beliefnet : "There are no atheists who believe they are Godlike. That means that no person indoctrinated in the...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Selfish or Social

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Life after death? - Beliefnet : There's no such thing as a selfless act. When people do good to others they only do this to benefit th...
Monday, September 13, 2010

Spiritual but Not Religious

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Common ground? Maybe we can all get along after all. - Beliefnet : "Spirituality is a natural human response to awe and wonder at unu...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Fallacy of the Cipher.

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Life after death? - Beliefnet : "Timothy, 2 + 2 = 4. But 2 + 2 + 0 = 4, too. What you are arguing is what I like to call the fallac...