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Physicist Richard Feynman was a member of the doubting community, not the faith community
And he ended up in hell for it. Just kidding.
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Tagged Christianity, doubt, evidence, faith, God, hell, Islam, physics, reason, richard feynman, science, the doubting community
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Did Sarah Palin write this Amazon review?
I thought that the below Amazon review of Michael Hyde’s The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgment (Purdue 2005), in its unironic anti-intellectuality and impatience with anything not conventionally “normal,” inadvertently channelled Sarah Palin. It was as if the person had accidentally walked into the … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, books, college, intellectuals, michael hyde, middle brow, populism, Sarah Palin, tea partiers
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Question for a Sunday
Some people, indeed a lot of people, believe that not just humans, but animals, possess souls, and so should not be eaten. Is it thus religiously insensitive for public secular institutions, like college cafeterias, to serve hamburgers? And should professors … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Christianity, free speech, Islam, Judaism, Muslims, offense, philosophy, social psychology, vegetarianism
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