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Monthly Archives: March 2010
A great Albert Einstein quote on critical thinking—and being a cyborg
I stumbled on the quote below while reading Walter Isaacson’s excellent recent biography of Albert Einstein. Einstein was being asked by an American journalist about the anti-theoretical pragmatism of Thomas Edison. Edison liked people with a lot of practical knowledge in their … Continue reading
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Tagged albert einstein, atheism, critical thinking, cyborg, cyborgs, education, journalism, marshall mcluhan, philosophy, reason, science, thomas edison
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What did Ireland’s Catholic Cardinal Brady do?
According to news reports, Cardinal Sean Brady ordered “two children to keep silent after they were sexually assaulted by a priest.” Did you catch that? As of today, Pope Benedict has not relieved Cardinal Brady of his duties, and Cardinal Brady has … Continue reading
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Tagged adolf eichmann, Cardinal Sean Brady, Catholic Church, catholic priests, Catholicism, God, Jesus, nazis, pedophilia, priest pedophilia, religion, torture
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“The stench of evil”: Christopher Hitchens on Pope Benedict’s cover-up of priest pedophilia
Christopher Hitchens at Slate this week: The Roman Catholic Church is headed by a mediocre Bavarian bureaucrat once tasked with the concealment of the foulest iniquity, whose ineptitude in that job now shows him to us as a man personally … Continue reading
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Tagged cardinal ratzinger, Catholic, Catholicism, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, God, Jesus, pedophilia, pope benedict, roman catholic church
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Nice ring
Membership has its privileges. . Apparently, you get lots of nice things when you cover up for pedophiles. Here’s Andrew Sullivan today: [I]f the Pope asked Brady to resign, wouldn’t he also have to ask himself to resign? After all, … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, Catholicism, child sexual abuse, Christianity, God, Jesus, pedophiles, pedophilia, pope benedict, religion
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Official Vatican exorcist, Don Gabriele Amorth, blames priest pedophilia on Satan, atheists, and working women
No joke. According to Salon today, official Vatican exorcist Don Gabriele Amorth: . . . told the UK Times, “All evil is due to the intervention of the Devil, including pedophilia.” He also added that contemporary culture has “given in … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic, Catholicism, child abuse, don gabriele amorth, exorcism, God, Jesus, pedophilia, religious literalism, Satan, the devil
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Dear Leader Megalomania
I like these two: . And this one: . More from MightyGodKing (MGK) here. And still more Dear Leader totalitarianism and megalomania (but of the Christian fundamentalist variety) here.
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Tagged chick tracts, Christian fundamentalism, comedy, Communism, cult of personality, cults, fundamentalism, humor, korea, north korea, south korea, totalitarianism
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Christopher Hitchens: It is the height of immorality to lie to people about what you really know about death
That is, nothing. I agree with Christopher Hitchens that religion is shameless in its manipulations of death fears via the carrot and stick of heaven and hell: it really is a moral outrage. One should never claim more about death—or anything, for … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, death, God, Hamlet, heaven, hell, life after death, NDEs, near-death experiences, religion, Shakespeare
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N.T. Wright: Reason is important BUT . . .
I’m a rational person, BUT . . . The Christian scholar N.T. Wright is very smart, yet he suggests in the video below that reason, standing alone, is inadequate to arriving at truth. He wants us to consider arriving at … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, critical thinking, deconstruction, God, Jesus, n.t. wright, philosophy, reason, Richard Dawkins, theology
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What Percentage of Americans Thinks the Bible is the Literal Word of God?
According to a new Pew Forum poll: 33%. And the above number really hasn’t changed all that much over the past 30 years. I read from this something important: fundamentalism, despite its clamoring presence in contemporary Republican politics, is not a … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, America, fundamentalism, God, Jesus, plague, polling, rats, religion, the Bible
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Andrew Sullivan calls the Republican Party a fundamentalist party
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Tagged Andrew Sullivan, Christianity, fundamentalim, gay marriage, gay rights, God, Jesus, Politics, Republican party, Republicans, the Bible
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Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University students visit a science museum with their young earth creationist professors
This European television report on young earth creationism in the United States is truly cringe inducing. What an embarrassment. Noah’s flood was responsible for laying down the bones of the dinosaurs?! As for what expert researchers say (after painstaking peer-reviewed scientific investigation) on … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, evolution, fundamentalism, God, jerry coyne, Jesus, magic woo stones, Richard Dawkins, science, the Bible, young earth creationism
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