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God on a Goldfish Cracker
No one is hungrier for click bait than the Huffington Post, but I, the proverbial piscis, was reeled in by news of the latest poultry/and or salted snack to bear the mark of the Almighty. Not because...
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Spiritual Nutrition: Climbing the Stairway To A Better World
My questioning of the traditional Christian religious story evolved with my experience of life’s vicissitudes, many self-induced, others seemingly out of the ether. One particular event shook me awake...
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False God by Bill Day
Is it a who or a what that you worship? (Click on image to enlarge)
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GOP: God’s Own Party?
photo: -mrsraggle- In my younger days the GOP was truly the “Grand Old Party.” It was a party of fiscally responsible, serious politicians who would represent its principles faithfully. But something...
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Dalai Lama, Jason Collins, Leviticus and You.
photo: Brett Jordan From the Dalai lama, “The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. How much am I doing about my anger, attachment, hatred, pride and jealousy? These are...
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Is There a War on Christianity or is it on Evangelizing?
photo: Carla216 Two Republican Congressmen fell for another Fox story. From rightwingwatch.org: “Congressmen Scalise and Gohmert Fall for Debunked Fox News Story on Supposed Plan to Court Martial...
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Jobless, Homeless and Happy…Oh My!
Note: This is part of an ongoing series, you can read the first four segments here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Yesterday I met with my Great uncle, he’s an interesting man. He’s in his late 80′s,...
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Christian Apologetics: Faith and Reason Revisited
photo: Art ~ 4ThGlryOfGod Recently a Christian lady suggested I listen to a podcast by Reverend Timothy Keller, Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York city. This talk was titled, “The...
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If Christianity was the great cause, fundamentalism is the racket.
photo: WarmSleepy Isaac Asimov, wrote, “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way...
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Do We Need Religion?
photo: From John Caputo’s book, What Would Jesus Deconstruct, “Meister Eckhart, said God is unnameable and therefore omninameable, and so He prays, I pray God to rid me of God. I pray (the unnameable)...
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Religious Truths? Don’t Be So Sure.
Albert Einstein said, “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle,...
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The Truth Is Too Messy For Church
“The truth is not the stuff of edifying hymns, rather it is dangerous, dirty and smelly business. Not everyone has the stomach for it, above all those who say, “Lord, Lord” and then head for cover the...
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Will There Be Hell to Pay?
Yes, we need Hell. Without it how can we reconcile ourselves to the overwhelming evil we read about every day? In the documentary, Hellbound?, this was offered as one reason the concept of Hell...
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How to Dampen a Well Functioning Conscience
At my age, nothing should surprise me. Yet I am astounded by the so-called religious right’s ability to allow their religion to dampen the effects of the well-functioning conscience most of them were...
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Somehow God Always Agrees With the Fundamentalist Christian.
The Problem of the Christian Fundamentalist Religious Story So, what is it that secular humanists, atheists, agnostics and those sorts are doing to set the Christian Fundamentalist’s teeth on edge? It...
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Santa’s Jerkshop: Bill Maher Defends Atheism Against Rick Perry (VIDEO)
Bill Maher closed Real Time last night with a blisteringly amusing condemnation of Rick Perry that developed into a full-throated defense of Atheism at large. Reflecting on the Texas Governor’s new...
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Taking Responsibility For Our Own Morality
I am a single point of view in time and space. I experience my myself, my thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest; a kind of optical delusion of my consciousness. (Albert Einstein...
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Do We Need Religion?: Part II
I recently wrote a piece titled, “Do We Need Religion?” I was happy to read the responses. As usual, they were sometimes in sync with my intentions and sometimes not. It also became obvious that...
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North is a Direction. The South is a Place. That’s Fundamental!
“The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life estimates that groups representing these citizens [Christian fundamentalists] spend about $390 million each year to lobby the government to impose their...
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Is a Neurotic Form of Christianity Destroying America?
“The deconstruction of Christianity is not an attack on the church but a critique of the idols to which it is vulnerable – the literalism and authoritarianism, the sexism and racism, the militarism,...
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