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PZ Myers: The Rush Limbaugh of Atheism?
I certainly understand why people like PZ Myers’s style. It is easy and uncomplex, and impatient with nuance. It’s what makes Fox News so popular. And it may well draw a crowd of young people. Myers is ever on the … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, faitheism, philosophy, PZ Myers, religion, rush limbaugh, science
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Stanley Fish on the Cross of Doubt
The religions I know are about nothing but doubt and dissent, and the struggles of faith, the dark night of the soul, feelings of unworthiness, serial backsliding, the abyss of despair. Whether it is the book of Job, the Confessions … Continue reading
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Tagged backsliding, Book of Job, despair, doubt, Job, John Calvin, life, stanley fish, the cross, the dark night of the soul
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Emily Dickinson on Telling the Truth
And, implicitly, on how to make art: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightening to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Emily Dickinson, epiphany, life, literature, poetry, truth
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This Blog’s Enemies (and Friends)
Because I’m an agnostic, the “enemy” at this blog (if I am to have “enemies”) is really the person who wishes to avoid worry and nuance with regard to his or her intellectual positions. Give me a person who is vulnerable and … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, ambiguity, apologetics, atheism, enemies, friends, philosophy, psychology, theism
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Are You Really Sure You Want God to be Dead?
If atheism were to achieve its “godless humanity” wish, what Huxlian Brave New World might arrive with this advent? If you’re an atheist, doesn’t this give you just a little bit of pause? Or is atheism simply a matter of truth for you, … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, God, philosophy, Politics, psychology, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, theist, utopia
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Atheist Universe? Is Naturalism a More Parsimonious (Simple) Assumption to Make about What We See Around Us than Supernaturalism?
As an agnostic, I’m not so sure that I can agree with atheists that the most parsimonious explanation (that is, the simplest explanation) for the universe is naturalism. I would suggest that getting to an objective definition, a priori, of what … Continue reading
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Quote for a Sunday
Henry David Thoreau (from Walden ): To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, … Continue reading
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Red Brick and Clay
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Tagged Adam, Adam and Eve, clay, Genesis, human origins, life
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Prometheus Unbound 