[these] should be called “Supernaturalists”, and it can be left to them to attempt to refute the findings of physics, chemistry, and the biological sciences…
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Personality Tests Teach Us Some Common Human Personality Types
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Dog BLOG, Why Religion Will Never Die
everything the test tells you about yourself is couched in very positive terms. “You are great at this, and great at that…”
Read MoreIs it good to lie to our children?
I think kids can handle the truth.
Read MoreOne Nation, Under God (unconstitutional) – constitutional challenge
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Dog BLOG, Questions (question everything), Questions to ask yourself
Here is an example from Fox News, of how they don’t get it.
Read MoreChristopher Hitchens Does science make belief in God obsolete
It will not do to say, in reply to this, that the lord moves in mysterious ways. Those who dare to claim to be his understudies and votaries and interpreters must either accept the cruelty and the chaos or disown it: they cannot pick and choose between the warmly benign and the frigidly indifferent.
Read MoreSam Harris: What happens if you really follow the bible
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Dog BLOG, Questions to ask yourself
“comment: I don’t know anyone who deserves hell at all. He doesn’t answer prayers, he doesn’t protect his believers, he made them with sin and then sent his son to pay for that which he imbued his ‘children’ with. And why didn’t he just create us with the ability to have a relationship with each […]
Read MoreMormonism, is just a little more idiotic than Christianity
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Dog BLOG, Mormons, Questions to ask yourself
Sam Harris: “mormonism… objectively, is just a little more idiotic than christianity. …It’s christianity, plus some very stupid ideas. “
Read MoreAmerica and Our Own Fundamentalism – post 9-11
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Dog BLOG, Questions to ask yourself, Things that make you go hmmmmm.
Our country is programmed not to notice these uncannily strange and empty utterances about God and his wishes
Read MoreReality, and Monism and Religion
Religious people seem to effortlessly navigate between two modes; reality-based, fact based thinking, and mystical spiritual religious thinking. And the latter is never refuted by the former. For example. One often hears from the pulpit, references to Adam as the first man, and Noah, with his story. These are accepted in the believer’s mind without […]
Read MoreGive ’em What They Want
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Dog BLOG, Why Religion Works
Many of religion’s teachings are palliative — and they don’t hide it. It’s one example of religion giving people what they want.
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