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Love is Blind...
2007-04-21 06:06:00
...or at the very least the love of Jesus may cause blindness. (They should put a warning label on this sort of thing.) The European Court of Human Rights recently awarded Alicja Tysiac a judgment of 25,000 Euros after she was denied an abortion despite a diagnosis from several doctors that carrying the pregnancy to term could make her go blind. In staunchly Catholic Poland, abortion is illegal
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Letter From A Christian Citizen
2007-04-18 23:20:00
Sam Harris should be incredibly content. He currently has two New York Times bestsellers, numerous speaking engagements, and a column in The LA Times. To add to this mounting list of accomplishments, Sam Harris will be happy to know that his latest book, Letter to a Christian Nation, has created such a stir that it warranted an appropriate response from the Christian community entitled, Letter
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Almost Human
2007-04-18 00:24:00
In a previous post, I mentioned the studies conducted with Rhesus Monkeys, but it appears that there are also studies being conducted with chimpanzees in respects to morality and culture. In a recent New York Times article, entitled Almost Human , and Sometimes Smarter a blurred line between human and chimp culture was depicted. Here are a few choice excerpts. "The emotions of caring and
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On this day...
2007-04-13 21:46:00
Thomas Jefferson, who became third president of the United States, was born in Virginia. In his Notes on Virginia (1781), Jefferson wrote: "Millions of innocent men, women and children since the introduction of Christianity have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned. Yet have we not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools and
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Whose salvation?
2007-04-12 13:35:00
And why do you need an "army" for it? While its name should speak for itself, for some reason, many people are unaware that the Salvation Army (SA) is an evangelical Christian organization. Ringing bells, smiling faces, and little red kettles are a main stay during the holiday season, but for some reason most people are blinded from what should be a rather obvious fact. Founded in England by
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Same-sex weddings coming out at Disney
2007-04-11 15:00:00
This is bound to ruffle some feathers at boycott-happy groups like the Southern Baptist Convention and the "Family" Research Council. In an inclusive, non-bigoted commercial move, Walt Disney Co. announced that gay couples can buy the company's high-end Fairy Tale Wedding package that allows homosexual couples to exchange vows at Disney's theme parks and aboard its cruise ships. While Disney
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"Can an atheist be a good person?"
2007-04-01 19:47:00
Can an atheist be a good person?" While, the answer seems obvious to me, others, theists in particular, have difficulties with this question. If I had to rank the top five questions I receive regarding my lack of belief, the source of "moral" behavior would be a close second to Pascal's Wager. With that said, it didn't shock me when I came across an article entitled "Can an atheist be a good
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Assumptions
2007-04-01 00:28:00
I've found that whenever I move to a new place and I eventually reveal my lack of belief to people, I'm greeted with a host of assumptions. It's as if what I lack a belief in speaks for all my other life experiences and beliefs. For example, I couldn't possibly believe in marriage and "proper" child rearing because I lack a belief in God. Additionally, because I am only in my twenties, my
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Betrand Russell
2007-03-13 23:16:00
“You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite
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Pascal's Wager: A Faith-Based Sucker's Bet
2007-02-18 00:14:00
By David Gleeson August 23, 2006 If you are skeptical of the supernatural, as I am, you will sooner or later be confronted with an “argument” sometimes referred to as Pascal ’s Wager . Blaise Pascal was a 17th century French mathematician who formulated this rationale for taking belief in God seriously: “If atheism is right, we [Biblical literalists] have nothing to lose by believing. But if we’
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Why Am I An Atheist?
2007-02-01 06:33:00
It is by far the million-dollar question, even if most people are afraid to ask it. It is the ever-present and demanding question regarding one's affiliation with the most distrusted minority group in America. There is no doubt I openly lack a belief in the supernatural. I say openly, because there are many atheists that would prefer hiding their doubt from the masses. I am not one of them. I
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Prayer of the Day
2007-01-28 22:12:00
Prayer of the Day: I swear by my love of life, my love of reason, my love of all that makes this world beautiful and unique, but mostly by my love of humanity and love itself, that I will spend my life battling ignorance, hatred, faith, and the belief that we are born to be evil. I would give my only life, my mortal life, to fight the idea of an immortal one, for the sake of generations that will
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Eve's Parting Gift
2007-01-12 04:08:00
The following story was provided by a friend. It has officially been included into canon so take note. EVE is sitting on a stump, legs crossed, wearing a smart suit of leaves and twigs and is ready for business. EVE Look, I'm not going to insult your intelligence by making excuses or lying to you, because you know what happened. Frankly, Adam bores the piss out of me and the serpent was a
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A History Lesson
2006-12-26 07:27:00
Because modern religion isn't as old as the dirt man was supposedly made out of.
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