by VorJack
I discovered a pamphlet under my windshield the other afternoon. It was a typical and rather unimaginative evangelical pamphlet. It took promised me salvation and eternal life, and paved the way to heaven with a string of bible quotes.
I started to think about what beliefs were required to make this argument work. [...]
by Edman
As a resident of the Southern US, I tend to make the mistake of thinking that the power struggle between fundamentalists and secularists is confined to my region, and that the rest of the world is somehow a little more enlightened. A UF reader has kindly sent in a letter informing us of a [...]
Reader GJ writes:
According to Wikipedia, there are 19 major religion in the world that almost 75% of the world believes in. If we are to believe that only one of those 19 is correct and the path toward eternal life, that means we only have a 5.26% chance of getting it right. How anyone can [...]
From this perspective, religion is not innate, but rather a cultural development that we might call “cognitive-emotional cheesecake”. I adapt this metaphor from Steven Pinker’s claim that music is not innate, but rather amounts to “auditory cheesecake”. A preference for cheesecake is not innate, since cheesecake did not exist during the early stages of human [...]
by VorJack
I’ve just read John Scalzi’s wonderful novella The God Engines, where humans find themselves dealing with Gods who are both more and less than they appear (and finally answers the question, “what does God need with a starship?”)
Scalzi gives us Gods that need – or at least benefit – from human faith and worship. [...]
by VorJack
I first heard about Adam and Eve in Sunday school. Then I heard about cave men from some pop culture source – the comic strip B.C. maybe.
This confused me. I kept asking people who came first: Adam & Eve or the cave men? I can’t remember ever getting an answer.
Later on [...]
CNN has a new blog on religion, called Belief. So far it looks like a decent religion news/opinion aggregator.
Simon Owens has an interview with the co-editor of Belief about how the blog views religion:
I spoke on the phone to Dan Gilgoff, the co-editor of Belief who previously wrote columns for both U.S. News & World [...]
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will — and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than [...]
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