Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The Personal Character of Religious Belief

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In discussions with believers, I've come to the conclusion that although most believers claim affiliation with a particular version of r...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Public Education Under Attack

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My insightful friend Ronald Bruce Myer (aka the pseudonym "John Mill") recently posted an outstanding essay about teachers under f...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

The Cruelty of Alzheimer's

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In one of my favorite movies, The Shawshank Redemption , Ellis (Red) Redding (played by one of my favorite actors , Morgan Freeman) is re-un...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

What Does Freedom of Speech Mean To You? Part 3

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My friend, David Matthews II, host of the ShockNet Radio program " Brutally Honest " posted (on 17 September) a fascinating analy...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

Believers Arguing on Behalf of Their Beliefs

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After years of struggling with something, it's nice to be able to come to a new understanding.  I suppose some of my readers may dispute...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Hopefully, for the last time ... but likely not!

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Recent e-discussions have brought this issue to a head for me.  Hopefully, I can pump this out and will only have to refer to it in the futu...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Infinite Capabilities vs. Free Will

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Free will has been the topic of many conversations with believers and nonbelievers I've had in the past.  For the purposes of this blog,...
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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Nominating Conventions as Propaganda

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Anyone who could endure watching the now-completed Republican National Convention must now realize that these conventions (yes, I'm incl...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

Rush Limbaugh Sinks to a New Low

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Just today, Rush Limbaugh's blog has sunk to a new low !  In this blog, he insinuates (without saying it in so many words, of course) th...
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Sunday, August 26, 2012

The True Nature of the Anti-Abortion Campaign

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I've been struggling with the issue of abortion for a long time.  I don't believe it to be the simple, black-and-white issue that ma...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

The Atheist 'Community'?

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It's only in the last few years that I've found a bunch of atheist groups on the Web, complete with Facebook pages and so on.  I gue...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

A Holy Grail for Science?

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I've mentioned the issue of my frustration with public media several times over the years.  I wrote a whole essay about my experiences w...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

Trolling, trolling, trolling ..

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I read the blog of Sam Harris fairly often, and just stumbled on this little piece regarding how his situation has evolved during his growi...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Labels - bigotry in disguise?

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Recently an Internet friend of mine was being pressed by someone on Facebook to accept the label "atheist" because so many of her ...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Attack on religion?

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I can't speak on behalf of all those who don't believe in a deity of the sort hypothesized in Abrahamic religions, so these comments...
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Monday, August 6, 2012

Priorities - a brutally honest mirror

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Years ago, I first heard what has become an often-used aphorism for me:  "What you say speaks so loudly, I can't hear what you'...