Posts Tagged ‘religion’

By:  Sam Harris https://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/chapter-one The young man boards the bus as it leaves the terminal. He wears an overcoat. Beneath his overcoat, he is wearing a bomb. His pockets are… read more →

Written by:  Nigel Lawson Climate scientists and their hangers-on have become the high priests of a new age of unreason How is it that much of the Western world, and… read more →

By:  Robert D Brinsmead How would games and sport function or have appeal to humans unless it created sides or teams to be on.  The first thing I remember about… read more →

by Benjamin Grant Purzycki Punitive Big Brother; cosmic petty-thief-catcher; vigilant landlord. Why is God so interested in bad behaviour? Benjamin Grant Purzycki is an anthropologist working at the Centre for Human Evolution,… read more →

Jonathan Hodgson Large parts of the world are becoming vastly more secular.  Do we know how to replace the benefits offered by religion. Here is a three minute video that… read more →

by  Amy Westervelt  (5 January 2015) Science is discovering what religion has always known: forgiveness is good for us – but that doesn’t make it any easier Terri Roberts, 62,… read more →

by: Karen Armstrong  From the renowned and bestselling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion’s connection to violence. For the first time in American history, religious self-identification… read more →

By:  Robert D Brinsmead Jesus taught that the kingdom of God (the logos and the Sophia of God) is present, spread out on the face of the earth as the… read more →

Various Contributors It is the matter of the core words of Jesus supported by his core parables.   Do not retaliate against evil because God does not retaliate.  The other issue… read more →

Here is a great quote from today’s Australian (Letters, Last Post) September 30, A note to Fred Cehak (Letters, 29/9). As an earth scientist myself, I can tell you that… read more →

Review of Series By:  Wendell Krossa Ellens affirms that much about religions is behind so much violence.   People in all sorts of situations respond with violence because human consciousness  has… read more →

Book Review: By A Customer The Dark Side of Christian History is one of those rare finds. This book was written in a concise fashion and details the horrors, both… read more →

Review: by Gar Alperovitz What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution Chelsea Green Publishing, 2013 Today in America we are entrenched in a crucible of economic… read more →

By:  Wendell Krossa Over history an interesting relationship has developed between humanity and deity. People have long taken human features and projected them out to define deity, to shape their… read more →

By Hank Hasse – March 2014 I am currently reading John Shelby Spong’s Jesus for the Non-Religious. It was written in 2007. I remember reading somewhere else that “When you are… read more →

Written by:  Hank Hasse Too many folks have forgotten that America was first settled by people who escaped the tyranny of religion. (Church of England) They not only believed in… read more →

By:  Hank Hasse Betsy McCaughey, former Lt. Governor of New York, recently wrote: “If you like your God, you can keep him.” (She goes on to write more about the… read more →

by Martin Luther King, Jr. Here is an interesting paper written by Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1949 on Mithraism, a sect of Zoroastrianism, and its influence on the Christian… read more →

Roger Ebert has cancer again…. his thoughts on his approaching death…. I will pass away sooner than most people who read this, but that doesn’t shake my sense of wonder… read more →

By Richard Allen Greene, CNN London (CNN) – Religion comes naturally, even instinctively, to human beings, a massive new study of cultures all around the world suggests. “We tend to… read more →