“Religion is fossilized philosophy, in my view, but it is still philosophy; with most of the questions left out or claimed to be answered. ” — Christopher Hitchens
Read MoreReligion is … philosophy
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Things that make you go hmmmmm.
Organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive towards children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. The bible may, indeed does contain a warrant for human trafficking, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and […]
Read MorePeople with theistic beliefs should be called “Supernaturalists”
[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…
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 MoreAmerica and Our Own Fundamentalism – post 9-11
Our country is programmed not to notice these uncannily strange and empty utterances about God and his wishes
Read MoreGospel means “Good News”
I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that God is a fabrication of man. The bad news is that it will cost you to learn that this good news is true. …(Cost you time, study, some friends, family associations, labor to un-learn and then to acquire true principles of […]
Read MoreDavid Hume – On Miracles
Hume’s Maxim. This is priceless. I wish to hang it in my study. source: On Miracles by David Hume
Read MoreChildren and Religion – A.C.Grayling – British moral philosopher
Let us challenge religion to leave children alone until they are adults, whereupon they can be presented with the essentials of religion for mature consideration.
Read MoreAn Open Letter to the Leadership of the Mormon Church
This letter, “…to the Leadership…” could have been from me, except for the part about being raised in Mexico. [Full Text]
Read MoreWHAT is god? …from h2g2.com
It is terrible to see a man who has the incomprehensible in his grasp, does not know what to do with it, and sits playing with a toy called God. -Tolstoy Of all the questions men and women have asked of themselves and of each other, down through the ages, can there be any as […]
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