Religion
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Today’s Boston Globe
As I mentioned here the other day, I was quoted in Sunday’s Boston Globe Magazine in a feature about Humanism. David Abel contacted me July 25 to request permission to quote my blog entry on the Harvard Humanist conference that took place back in April (during which I participated in a panel on the “next generation” of Humanism). He had…
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Today's Boston Globe
As I mentioned here the other day, I was quoted in Sunday’s Boston Globe Magazine in a feature about Humanism. David Abel contacted me July 25 to request permission to quote my blog entry on the Harvard Humanist conference that took place back in April (during which I participated in a panel on the “next generation” of Humanism). He had…
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Crazy, dangerous cult leader gets his day in court.
Opening arguments begin today in the trial of everyone’s favorite polygamist child abuser, Warren Jeffs. You remember Jeffs — he’s the nutball who was on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted early last year, and who was apprehended just about a year ago. Jeffs has probably done a lot of really awful things in his life, but the real tragedy…
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More on Doubt
I’ve been reading a blog called The Friendly Christian lately. It was inspired by Hemant Mehta’s Friendly Atheist blog, which I also read regularly. The Friendly Christian blog has only been up for a few weeks. It’s a mixture of personal posts and questions about faith and doubt: something that I find very refreshing on a Christian website, most of…
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This is so sad
This is one of the saddest things I’ve ever read, written by Mother Theresa in letters that were first published in 2002 and have recently been getting a lot of attention in the media: “What do I labor for? If there be no God, there can be no soul. If there be no soul then, Jesus, You also are not…
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And the winner is…
Yesterday’s sacrilicious Photoshopping contest got off to a great start with this gem from MissMarnie: This was followed by a number of very well-done entries. Rudism’s made me snort: But (s)he Photoshopped the wrong photo. Was I clear in my instructions? No. Does that matter? No. Disqaulified! I therefore declare the winner to be Bob the Owl, who turned woody…
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Jesus ignores pleas of trapped miners, appears on fence.
She called her sister Ana over to ask what she saw. She too agreed, it was the Son of God. Well, that’s all the proof I need! Job well done, Cornell Barnard, “reporter.” You can e-mail him at [email protected] and let him know what a great job he did reporting this very important story. link +++ I’m editing this to…
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More on to be Nice or Not to be….
Great discussion about Shermer’s article. For more interesting comments, see the discussion on The Friendly Athiest. I want to continue this conversation. (I’m sorry if I seem to be hogging the blog with religious topics. I know a lot of our readers are more interested in discussions about anti-science, superstition, and various other skeptical topics but the other bloggers seem…
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