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Monthly Archives: December 2013
A Get Rich Quick Scheme Using Religion That Actually Works
The basic formula. How might you make big bucks in the religion racket? Try using the following formula on people: God is mad at you, pray this prayer, God won’t be mad at you. It’s that simple. Selling this psychologically … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, critical thinking, faith, God, money, philosophy, psychology, religion, sales
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You Are a Giant Tongue! The Five Key Adaptive Traits That Made Us Human
__________ Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Vitruvian Man and its variants (such as that done by William Blake) present human beings as the pinnacle of creation, unusually beautiful beings of perfect proportions obviously arising to their impressive stature in the cosmos … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Darwin, evolution, life, natural selection, Neanderthals, tongues
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Improvisation, Nude: The Emperors of Contemporary Art and Art Criticism Have No Clothes. Is that Okay?
Would somebody please, please, please save the art world from itself? Jed Perl, the great art critic, recently gave it his best shot, writing an Emperor-has-no-clothes piece for The New Republic: The cash registers are ringing and that’s the only … Continue reading
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Tagged art, atheism, Christopher Wool, God, jonathon keats, Nietzsche, philosophy, postmodernism, psychology
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Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas?
This shouldn’t be hard. If you’re an atheist, and you greet somebody who you know is a practicing Christian, decorum would suggest that you say “merry Christmas.” If you’re a Christian, and you know you’re greeting an atheist (or a … Continue reading
We’ve Entered the Atheist Holiday Season
___________ Magician and atheist James Randi magically levitates a holiday bird with occult powers given to him by Satan. Via James Randi at Facebook.
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Tagged art, atheism, Christmas, comedy, funny, happy holidays, humor, James Randi, mash up, Norman Rockwell
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Do Democracy, Mass Education, and Economic Prosperity Weaken God Belief?
Michael Shermer thinks so, and he has some data that supports him. Writing at Scientific American, here he is on democracy and mass education: One factor [in the decline of God belief internationally] is the dramatic spread of democracy around … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, belief, Blake, Dionysus, God, Michael Shermer, Nietzsche, tigers
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Fresh Water! Mars Rover Curiosity Finds 3.5 Billion-Year Old Lake Sediment in Gale Crater That Could Have Supported Life
There was some big news yesterday that you might have missed. It appeared in the science section of the The New York Times (December 9, 2013): [L]ife [on Mars], at least in the ancient past, is at least plausible. John P. … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, evolution, Gale Crater, life, life on mars, Mars, SETI, space, young earth creationism
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Why I Favor a Minimum Wage of $12.50
Because $12.50 translates to just $500 dollars for a 40 hour work week ($2000 a month; $24,000 a year). Combine this minimum wage with Obamacare subsidies for health care, and you’ve got every full-time worker in the U.S. with a … Continue reading
God is Dead, the Earth is Not Our Mother, and We are Alone?
Dr. Peter Ward, a paleontologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, is an atheist and prolific author (he’s written about a dozen books over his career). He’s also a skeptic concerning two things that a lot of secular people (including … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, environmentalism, evolution, Gaia hypothesis, peter ward, SETI
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Saint Ranieri, Meet George Jetson: Deconstruction Illustrated with a Catholic Painting
__________ What is deconstruction? In postmodern theory, deconstruction (in a nutshell) is the undoing of an author’s controlling intentions by time and audience reception. This can only happen because texts are made of parts, not coherent wholes. Over time, parts … Continue reading
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Tagged art, deconstruction, history, imagination, lenny kravitz, literature, philosophy, postmodernism, time
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Televangelist Paul Crouch Dies at 79; Leaves Behind Two Mansions in Newport Beach
The news. Paul Crouch died yesterday. He had quite the racket going, laughing all the way to the bank. This is over now. Here’s a quote from The New York Times obituary on him this morning (written by Emma G. Fitzsimmons): … Continue reading
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Tagged God, hypocrisy, Jesus, money, Paul Crouch, religion, TBN, wealth
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