Daily Archives: March 27, 2010

Eggs watch a cooking show

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Turn or burn? Among the young, is Evangelical Christianity losing its hell bite?

Is human imaginative sympathy and love slowly conquering fundamentalist dogma? Perhaps, and it might be because the world is getting smaller, making it more difficult to live an insular existence and project dehumanizing traits onto others.  This yesterday at NPR (in … Continue reading

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Agnostic and Atheist Values: How I Ground Morality Absent Religion

I am not responsible for bringing consciousness, happiness, or the sense of freedom into the universe, but now that they are here—and however they got here—I appraise them as very good things, and want them for myself and, by imaginative sympathy, for others. … Continue reading

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Henry David Thoreau on not reacting to every insistent demand

This Henry David Thoreau quote comes from the second chapter of Walden (1854): If the engine whistles, let it whistle till it is hoarse for its pains. If the bell rings, why should we run? We will consider what kind … Continue reading

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