Thursday, May 31, 2012

Christianity is not a Force for an Ideal Society

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Christianity (like most other religions) is used in two ways: to justify all the prejudices and power imbalances of society as it stands, or...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Nuns they are a changing

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Tony Auth
Monday, April 16, 2012

Pain and God

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beliefnet Pain is not necessarily bad, but pain caused by another human whether physical or mental is bad, in fact positively immoral for ...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Apolitical Atheists?

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beliefnet Yet I also think that atheists would do well to steer clear of American politics. American politics is corrupt, the gambolin...
Monday, April 2, 2012

On Prejudice

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Prejudice. During those years I came to understand that there is a difference between prejudice and bigotry. Prejudice is exactly what it s...
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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Is Homosexuality Natural in Late Adolescent Men?

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I LOVE PENIS! Facebook post of 17yo. male. The thought occurred to me that if 17yo males didn't love penis, we wouldn't have armies...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

The Future of the Religious Right

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beliefnet As the religious right is systematically destroying the education and hence competitiveness of their children in the secular wor...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Jesus, Theistic Humanist

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Beliefnet So what do you think was "out of the box"? Ken In the context of the time The Two Great Commandments were downrigh...
Saturday, March 3, 2012

On Apologies. Limbaugh Attempt.

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In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke,” Too little, too l...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Atheism Elevator Speech

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Atheism is simply figuring out a way to "Live a life worth dying for"* without supernatural help in the form of Gods or afterlife ...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Uncertainty in Unbelief.

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beliefnet I, a life-long, wholly dedicated believer in God and one who thinks he has a reasonable basis for that belief, do not think tha...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Cradle Atheists

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beliefnet I am not sure if I've really met any "cradle atheists." Larosser You probably wouldn't know it if you had. ...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

What is an Atheist?

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beliefnet An atheist is a person who does not believe in God, gods or goddesses. Some atheists have considered the reasons, such as th...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Atheist Communities.

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beliefnet If we define community as "a free and voluntary gathering of individuals with shared goals and interests -- of persons who ...
Friday, February 17, 2012

On Nietzsche

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beliefnet I have never been a Nietzschean, atheist or otherwise. That said, Nietzsche was one of the first to articulate the fact that i...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

On Athiest Priests.

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beliefnet I was part of a Requiem sung for a good Catholic friend. There was no hypocrisy there, for the duration of the requiem I was a...
Saturday, February 4, 2012

Alex and Kevin Black - Amazing Grace

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Fantastic even for a proud papa and grandpa.

Moral Rules, Community Standards and Conscience.

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beliefnet If we are to make any sense of this topic, Morality, we must distinguish between moral behavior and moral rules. Moral behavi...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Was Jesus Extraordinary?

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beliefnet As you know I use the Jefferson Bible as my main source for the details of the ministry of Jesus, mixed with my own analysis of ...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

"The Book of Goddesses: Robert Paterson has arrived!!!

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Even more spectacular than I anticipated. The idiom of the Goddess believers in the unique idiom of Rob Paterson, is incredibly beautiful a...
Sunday, January 8, 2012

Atheists for Jesus

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Atheists for Jesus Of course Jesus was a theist, but that is the least interesting thing about him. He was a theist because, in his time, ...
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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Practical Atheism and Feminism.

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beliefnet Both Skep-Chick and Blag Hag are also feminist sites in addition to atheist sites. Perhaps as both claim, of necessity, but th...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Atheism and Existentialism

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beliefnet Human Social Development ISN'T a deeply Existential Matter ... ??? teilhard Only for those whose God has failed them. If t...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Music on a Vuvuzela

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Vuvuzela Music FAQ When people first time try out a vuvuzela, they tend to look at the mouthpiece, see the hole, blow some air into it and ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

A Christian asks about Dying

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Beliefnet I hope you followed the link to legacy it should explain much. With nothing expected after death, you look backward, if you ha...
Monday, December 5, 2011

The Book of Goddesses: Robert Paterson

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The facinating background on the upcomming release of the new CD Dec 6 Use CDbaby it is more fun and better for the artists. My guess: it...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Absolute Moral Authority.

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beliefnet The Bible has indeed been RECEIVED ais "Authoritative" ... This is so not least because an entire Community has receiv...

Dogs and people.

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Afghans generally consider dogs filthy animals and will use them to guard their homes, but they don't treat them the way Americans treat...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Absolute Moral Authority.

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There is an absolute moral authority it comes from the evolutionary need for intelligent social animals to live, breed and compete under a m...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Religion, Music and Art

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beliefnet I have explored the entire realm of seeking called religion and found absolutely nothing useful for living except the music and ...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Defining Right and Wrong vs Morality

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beliefnet we're confusing DEFINING right/wrong... from KNOWING right/wrong. Aka me, all Not we, you and religions. Most of us social...

Dot's Spirituality

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beliefnet All humans feel awe and wonder resulting from certain things--a beautiful sunrise or sunset, rainbow after a bad thunderstorm, t...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Atheist Morality

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beliefnet Morality for atheists comes from the same place that morality for theists comes from: The society of the peers we respect and i...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Emotional Wounds.

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Time and brain chemistry heal all wounds even emotional ones. I know I’m not physically hurt. Though it feels like I’ve been kicked in the ...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Faith as Morton's Demon

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beliefnet What think ye? Can you consider that you (A or T) can't really be objective, that your neural structure will not let you b...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Atheism vs Skepticism

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There is some confusion in the minds of many including religious skeptics as to the relationship of skepticism to atheism. I think it is fa...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Atheism and Being Human

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beliefnet Actually even in cases [failed theists] such as you describe, they are "observing the world" and finding that atheism ...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Is Life Enough?

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beliefnet When is one's current (often rather inadequate and inaccurate) understanding of reality enough? Shouldn't one desire m...
Sunday, October 9, 2011

Atheists on the will to live.

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All my life I have been positive but lately I have been thinking why? I do not see the reason to live. I mean it all ends in death anyway. ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Life 101

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“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss Thanks for finding this Jamel Oeser-Sweat
Friday, September 30, 2011

Elizabeth Warren on Success

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moveon.org Perhaps the lesson for the wealthy that trashing the social support is trashing self will soon be apparant. The writing is on ...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Jesus' Sources

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beliefnet There is nothing original about Jesus' "understanding." Virtually everything he said can be found in Cynic phil...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Source of Wisdom

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beliefnet In a modern working society there is no single source of wisdom. All profound thinkers have been examined by peers and then the...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

More cool Rob Paterson Work

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Rob Patterson: Mallethands . On the wonder and challenges of new music composing, promoting, and performing. Note use of the viola as a so...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Abiogenesis for Dummies

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beliefnet With primitive organisms reproducing in hours if conditions are right, how long will it be before that low probability of a favo...

Are Believers Happier

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beliefnet The division between believers and non-believers seems to be on the question of who takes responsibility for the lives of the in...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Origins of Morality

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Beliefnet - --We *are* hard-wired for morality... while we can accurately describe the biology of how this occurs, in my mind it doesn'...
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Friday, September 16, 2011

SODOM AND GOMORRA

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From notes for a talk about the Bible and Homosexuality posted on Facebook by Meg Barnhouse. If you are not familiar with Meg you should ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Remembering HUAC

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It seems that it is time to once again remind people why "Under God" replaced "indivisible" in the Pledge of Allegiance....
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Moral Responsibility

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beliefnet Again ... "Religions" don't kill ... PEOPLE kill ... teilhard ... often in the name of god. You are correct, rel...