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Category: Religion and Reason
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“You don’t believe, we understand that, what reason could you have to keep trying to convince others that what they believe is wrong”, they repeatedly admonish. The reasons are clear. Religion has done great harm. “What about the good that religion does”, they implore. The little good is usually done to spread the meme of…
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The Cherry Tree, established circa 90 to 300 C. E. , where Christians come to pick the finest cherries. To make Christianity relevant in these modern times many ancient practices and beliefs must be abandoned. To accomplish this, those parts of the Bible that are barbaric must be ignored or relegated as being no longer…
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Amendment II, The Bill of Rights: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Does this amendment, the second amendment, part of the Bill or Rights, provide a legal basis for any group to develop and…
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Charles Darwin began life baptized as an Anglican and very much influenced by his mother’s religious view Unitarianism. As he grew up he came to view himself as becoming a country clergyman. He came to accept after much careful reading of contemporary books on divinity that the Bible was the literal truth, and…
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It occurs to me that there may have been some confusion surrounding my last blog entitled “Wake Up America”. I have a friend who mistakenly thought that I was painting all of Islam with the same broad brush. Although I was careful to designate the target of my blog as “Radical Islam”, nevertheless, just as…
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While I am suspicious of activity which indicates that Fundamentalist Christianity is making a move incrementally into the government of the United States, presently it does not present the greatest threat to America. The greatest threat to America, and indeed, the world comes from radical Islam. (I would advise every American to watch this film)…
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I have been writing a blog for several years. I have written them thinking that there were some basic commonalities between the differing groups of Christians. Well, there are some, many in fact, but some of my assumptions were wrong. One of the assumptions I was mistaken about is that all Christians absolutely loathe non-believers,…
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So much press of late has been about Mid-Ohio Atheists billboards. People would almost have to be sitting at home dead not to have heard of them by now. All the outcry from the public that these billboards were in bad taste, and in bad taste because they were scheduled at the holiday season. I…
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Why do irrational ideas endure? I once was told that one surefire method of escaping jury duty, should one desire to, is to say something like this: “I know that so and so, and I know he’s guilty, and once I make up my mind, nothing anyone says can change it.” People can…
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Atheists are the most distrusted of all of America’s minorities. When inquiries are made as to why this is so the response is usually that since God is the source of all morality, and since atheists do not believe in God, atheists have no morals. Morals existed before religions. Morals governing behavior were absolutely essential…
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