…exerpt from Vanity Fair article : I am trying my best not to view things through a smug later prism. Only the Almighty can scan matters sub specie aeternitatis: from the viewpoint of eternity. One must also avoid cultural and historical relativism: there’s no point in retroactively ordering the Children of Israel to develop a germ […]
Read MoreSee source; http://www.mrm.org/topics/documents-speeches/mark-twains-review-book-mormon . . . Copied from chapter 16 of Roughing It. All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the “elect” have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such […]
Read MoreChristianity: The belief that an invisible cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you eat his flesh, drink his blood, and telepathically tell him you accept him as your Master, so that he will remove an evil force from your soul which was put their because a woman made from a rib was […]
Read Moreit’s part of the reason many people wont change their mind or can’t change — it’s just too big a chasm to climb out of.
Read MoreVery misleading article, right from the first paragraph. http://mormonchurch.com/709/what-do-mormons-believe-about-adam-and-eve The biggest difference in how mormons see adam and eve is something that mormons are not taught. It’s that mormons believe that they are literally the first humans, and that they lived around 4000 B.C. (according to mormons and bible scholars). Whereas, for example the Catholics […]
Read More– – – – from “Thank Goodness!” – Daniel C. Dennett, reflecting on events following [heart problems]) What do I say to those of my religious friends (and I have quite a few religious friends) who have had the … honesty to tell me that they have been praying for me? I have gladly forgiven […]
Read More– – – – from “Thank Goodness!” – Daniel C. Dennett, reflecting on events following [heart problems]) One thing in particular struck me when i compared the medical world on which my life depended with the religious institutions I have been studying so intensely in recent years. One of the gentler, more supportive themes to […]
Read MoreI dedicate this blog to the Mormon church and to stake president G, who caused its creation by asking me if he could invite me back (to talk in his office) periodically to discuss what I told him about my beliefs with respect to …the cosmos. In preparation for my next chat I began to […]
Read MoreObjectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, vs. Christianity Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, provides a code of morality suitable for living successfully and happily on earth. Objectivism holds that reality is real, that reason is man’s only means of knowing it and that one should act in one’s own rational self-interest, with rationality being […]
Read MoreShe’s telling all the other children that they better make sure their homes are made of brick too or they might get eaten by a wolf.
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