Saturday, May 23, 2015

Assailing BS Conceptual Blocks

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beliefnet Once more assailing religious conceptual blocks.  Not expecting to succeed, but the BS cannot remain unchallenged.  JCar...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

On Death - Henry Scott Holland

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Death Is Nothing At All - Poem by Henry Scott Holland Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Skeptical Conceptual Blocks

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beliefnet christine3 :It seems most atheists here get a reaction when they read the words paranormal, supernormal, superconscious, supern...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Religious, Spiritual, and Atheist.

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I think Forrest Church's mantra is appropriate here.  Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.  I had a cha...

Spirituality

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I don't bother to use "spiritual" much, since like many other useful words in English, its meaning has been so corrupted by ...

Christian Atheists

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beliefnet YEC:  I would think almost all of the Atheist living in a free society are to one degree or another.   It is hard to be a Chris...

Jesuism 2015

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Interesting that Christian atheists redirects to a rather useful article on Jesuism.  When I was looking for a title for a thread on athe...
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Friday, May 15, 2015

A Female Jahwist?

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According to Harold Bloom in the Book of J the Jahwist was a high class educated women in Solomon's or Rehoboam's court tasked wit...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Atheists are Funnier than Christians.

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beliefnet   Mormon wrote: And once again, you cherry-pick in order to try and make a point. Atheist Now, that is a joke!  Is ther...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Why Create?

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beliefnet May 12, 2015 -- 4:35PM, JCarlin wrote: "So that is how God does it!" is essentially not conceptually different ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

What is Humanism

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beliefnet The UU First Principle is about as good a definition as I can find:   The inherent worth and dignity of every person. I go ...

The Science of God's Creation

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beliefnet May 12, 2015 -- 2:14AM, Roymond wrote: I wish you could have visited our Intelligent Design club in college.  It was all ...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Theistic Humanism

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I am convinced by long studies of Jefferson and Jesus the preacher man that both were theistic humanists.  When I was a kid in the UU trad...
Saturday, May 9, 2015

Commination

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I was raised Pisco, and when Christians are fighting each other, I usually regard the Piscos/Anglicans as my team (though on occasions the...

Back to Jesus Christians

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The back to Jesus the preacher man movement in Christianity, in essence back to the synoptic Gospels, while not blessed by the hierarchy e...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Winter Holidays

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Christmas for me has always been defined by the music. I never much cared for either the religious or the secular hoopla, although the yul...

Gender in Language

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beliefnet   Roymond wrote: Good point about the Hebrew.  It's worth noting that the same point essentially extends to all languag...

Cultural Christians

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beliefnet Cultural Christian wrote: The author opines that his situation and those of others similarly situated provide an opportunit...
Monday, May 4, 2015

Growing Up Atheist and Feminist

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beliefnet I grew up as a secular feminist male in a Sunday Country Club society.  Everybody went to church but nobody took it very seriou...

16 Hours a Day to Support a Family

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  Mormon wrote: It's entirely common for my dad and I to work 12 - 16 hours in a day. ... We've been awake for days at a time...

Religious Patriarchy

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beliefnet   christine3 wrote:The assinine patriarchal religions killed the matriarchal religions off. E.O. wrote: Why were they able ...

Working With Theistic Humanists

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beliefnet   christine3 wrote: ... I wouldn't dismiss believers. They have a strong feeling that it is possible a man in first cen...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The Hole in the Religious Donut

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I have been free all my life.  I don't really care what, if anything, my friends believe or even my enemies.  When their church is put...

Billary

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She was a pretty good president while Bill unzipped his way into the history books.  She always was the brains of the outfit. He was the ...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Tell Me, Tell Me.

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beliefnet Theist wrote: Oh atheists, teach me there is no God and I will be free. You will have to free yourself.  I could teach yo...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Warped Echoes of Religious Patriarchy

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Beliefnet Apr 22, 2015 -- 3:48AM, Kwinters wrote: Thanks! I am hoping to do more to highlight the link between the way religious pat...

Make a Difference

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Jane Goodall: You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.  What you do makes a difference, and ...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Some Wrong Answers Better Than Others.

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Apr 20, 2015 -- 7:23AM, theist wrote: Apr 19, 2015 -- 6:14PM, JCarlin wrote: The a-religious simply suggest that disabuse of relig...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Good Common Core Education

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Testing is simply a political football.  In any metro area large or small there are a few schools or school systems where kids can get ...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Shermer on BS

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Wow. You don't even read the posts of others who clearly illustrate you are wrong, do you. You just stick your fingers in...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Religious Wars Today

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beliefnet Yea but no one is killing bodies . . . right? Quite wrong.  The war on Godless Communism was a religious war with the genocid...

New Atheism

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beliefnet I suspect the New Atheism is a marginal and almost ignorable part of atheism.  The important parts of atheism are The nominall...

Scholarship

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beliefnet Um, all of this is just speculative nonsense. You are not an academic JC, and until you do some actual research that is all th...

Atheists and Social Media

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beliefnet YouTube  provider I suggest old atheists here check out social media and other new forms of communication for the younger gen...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

What is Now?

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  Blü wrote: If time is an illusion then how can you age? If only the moment exists, why can't you put yourself in any part of th...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

California Climate Change

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I suspect (maybe wishful thinking) that the West Coast will see Midwest type weather now that the jet stream left its north pole home for ...

Natural and Supernatural

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beliefnet Skeptic wrote: I think that the difference between nature and supernature is similar to the difference between Normal and Pa...

God is a Man-Made Invention.

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beliefnet christine3 wrote: 'God' is a manmade invention. I'm not sorry that I think that. So much of what is in the Bibl...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Why I am Not a Christian J'C Version

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beliefnet I have mentioned that I consider many parts of Christian scripture to be dysfunctional for Christians and society as a whole. ...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Why Argue Against Scripture

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beliefnet Fundy wrote: Why do posters who do not subscribe to CHRISTIAN scriptures argue against CHRISTIAN scriptures? What possible p...

There Ain't no Fundy Like a Science Fundy.

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beliefnet Theist wrote: If you believe so.... Skeptic wrote: Have you ever changed your beliefs based on new empirical evidence? ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

On Wanking

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Would you please make a case that wank material is not healthy for your mental and physical well-being.  I might suggest that wanking is ...

Jesus was married.

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How could anyone with any understanding of the Jewish Culture in the first century decide J.C. was a virgin?  Any normal male with a trad...