Category: religion
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Colin Powell on Muslim-Americans
This past weekend saw Colin Powell endorse Barack Obama for president on NBC’s Meet the Press. However, the most important and touching part of his speech came when he discussed Muslim-Americans: Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some…
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The Economics of Faith
When a recent survey found that 44% of adults have switched their religious affiliation, the Christian church realised that it has a bad case of declining “brand loyalty”. Now, in order to combat this, they have started to employ “mystery worshippers”. The Wall Street Journal profiles Thomas Harrison, a mystery worshipper, and uncovers the strange—yet…
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Believing in Impossible Things
Lewis Wolpert, the Emeritus Professor in Cell and Developmental Biology at UCL who gave the Is Science Dangerous? lecture (pdf) at the 120th Nobel Symposium, recently wrote the book Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast. In this book Wolpert explores the evolutionary origins of belief, and ABC News discusses this opinion in Why Do We Believe…
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Church of England to Apologise to Charles Darwin
A breath of fresh air:the Church of England is to officially apologise to Charles Darwin—126 years following his death—for dismissing his theory of evolution. This apology coincides with the release of a new CoE website promoting Darwin and his views, released this morning. The trouble with homo sapiens is that we’re only human. People, and…
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Ayn Rand in Playboy (Interview)
Playboy‘s 1964 Ayn Rand interview in full; a deep and prophetic discussion. PLAYBOY: Has no religion, in your estimation, ever offered anything of constructive value to human life? RAND: Qua religion, no — in the sense of blind belief, belief unsupported by, or contrary to, the facts of reality and the conclusions of reason. Faith,…
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Let Jesus Protect This Powerpoint
Yes, that is a real quote. It’s from Jesus Camp, an incredibly interesting—yet infuriating and disturbing—documentary recording the indoctrination of North Dakotan children to Evangelical Christianity. I just had to search for The Creation Adventure Team after I saw a child watching the show in the film and came across this 3 minute segment –…
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The Correlation Between IQ and Atheism
Times Higher Education reports that there is a strong correlation between a high IQ and a lack of religious belief, according to Richard Lynn, the controversial psychologist. In the past Lynn has performed research into what he believes is the existence of race and sex differences in intelligence, and has called for the “phasing out”…
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Bananas: An Atheist’s Nightmare, and the Scourge of United Fruit
The Banana: An Atheist’s Nightmare is a video I’ve seen linked in numerous places. I think this video nicely sums up Intelligent Design’s ignorance arguments. God exists because bananas fit well in the human hand and peel easily. First: Hahahahaha! Second: Peels easily? Are we ignoring the fact that – if anything – the banana…
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Suing in the Name of God
Soon it’s going to be illegal to see into the future; contact the deceased; and find out what’s inside closed envelopes. Well, probably… New laws are about to criminalise clairvoyants who fail to note on their advertisements that their services ‘are not subject to scientific proof’. Obviously, I’d like to think that the more intelligent…
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Interview With a Blind Homeless Man
Interview With a Blind Homeless Man, by Bobby “Revellian” Revell: I don’t get upset when someone calls me old, stupid or whatever because I don’t know what it really means when describing a person. This great post reads almost like what I call the doctrine of the atheists; morals and ethics come from within. This…