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Category: Religion and Reason
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Toleration. To what extent should toleration be applied. Does toleration end as those you are tolerating are leading you to your execution? Shouldn’t your toleration have ended a wee bit before you couldn’t do anything about it? Many Jews tolerated the German Nazis far too long and went beyond the point where anything could be…
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Existence is preferred over non-existence. Something is desired over nothing. Even the adolescent teenager that possesses no maturity imagines themselves able to observe from some higher plane the aftermath of their suicide “to get even, or make them sorry”. The concept of nothingness is as impossible to grasp as is the immensity of very…
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Hurricanes, floods, tornados, drought, dust storms, and tsunami; all natural scourges humans and animals alike have faced since the beginning of existence. Ancient humans decided there must be some cause for these horrible tragedies. They fabricated a cause: Gods, demons. Nature has no conscience or consciousness. Nature does not act for or against any organism.…
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Religions, all religions, are cults. Some religions are simply bigger than others and manage to strong-arm everyone into dismissing the “cult” label. All religions prefer to start with the very young. Children’s minds are very sponge-like and possess no means of resisting irrational thought. In effect, what they are doing can be considered “programming” or…
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The person who asserts that god exists must provide the proof of their claims. The person who asserts that god does not exist must also provide the proof of their claims. For the scientist that uses the scientific method, and what scientist could be called a scientist that does not, that scientist must have…
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rea•son (ˈri zən)n. 1. a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, or event.2. a statement presented in justification or explanation of a belief or action.3. the mental powers concerned with forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences.4. sound judgment; good sense.5. normal or sound powers of mind; sanity.6. Logic. a premise of an argument.7.…
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Circumcision… Why the controversy? Circumcision was common but not all encompassing among ancient Semitic peoples. The reasons for it are not known with solidity. Many think it began as a religious rite or rite of passage for boys into adulthood. In ancient times it was also thought to aid cleanliness. The first medical doctor to…
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If one examines the Egyptian Sun God Ra many similarities will be noted between Ra and the story of Jesus. In fact, the stories nearly parallel. It is apparent that the story of Jesus was plagiarized from the Sun God’s story. This is the basis for my assertion that Christianity started as sun worship. If…
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