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Category: Religion and Reason
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What do Christians mean when they implore you to have an open mind? I can assure you that they do not mean the same thing that is meant when the non-religious say it. Atheists, humanists, agnostics, and the non-religious mean for you to keep your mind open to new ideas, new information, without dismissing it…
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During his life Einstein’s religious leanings were never clear. Many of his quotes seemed to support a bend toward spirituality. His famous quote, “God does not play dice with the universe” is taken as evidence of his religious belief. “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what…
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I post once a week, unless there is something important I have to say. This is a special post for posters, here, on WordPress. There was a time when I churned out four or five posts a week. The posts were posted on WordPress and on the local newspaper site. The newspaper site is no…
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Intelligent Design, born of creationism, is creationism disguised by the use of scientific sounding jargon. Some have said that it is science, only that it is “bad” science. This assertion, however, in my opinion, is false, and those who accept it as merely bad science have bought into the ruse which accompanies most publicly presented…
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” I saw the quote on Facebook, attributed to Charles Darwin, but … he didn’t say it. It was a quotation from Clarence Darrow, most likely during the Scopes Monkey…
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(The following are simply lines of thought on my part. I make no claims of accuracy or claims that they are indeed true, even though to me they seem logical.) Humans, obviously the most successful creature on this planet. Dominating every other species, even driving a great number of them to extinction, humans think themselves…
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An adaptation of that Christian thriller …ARMAGEDDON. For decades the Uncovery Institute and Responses In Genesis have been working to get Intelligent Design into the mainstream of science and into a myriad of other disciplines. Their efforts to force it, ID, into schools, is well known. Responses In Genesis, more bent on Creationism than Intelligent…
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This excerpt from Alternet: A Christian religious leader has already claimed that Hurricane Sandy is further proof that “God is systematically destroying America” as political judgment for the “homosexual agenda.” John McTernan previously made similar allusions about Hurricanes Katrina (2005) and Isaac (2012), which he reiterated in his urgent call to prayer posted Sunday evening.…
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Getting atheists to agree on anything has been compared to trying to herd cats. This cat wants to go this way, that one that way, until forward motion is nearly nil. Even getting an atheist to come to the table to debate a direction, or even consider that a direction is needed, is a difficult…
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Ever read at letter to the editor or seen a sign carried by a Christian exclaiming this or that piece of scripture? Ever hear them assert that the nation had better return to God or face the consequences? Discounting the fact that every Christian interprets the Bible differently, has a different vision of what God…
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