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Albert Mohler: Christopher Hitchens in Hell for Unbelief

Albert Mohler is President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and Darrel Falk, past President of BioLogos, calls Albert Mohler “among the most important evangelicals in the world” and a “giant” in evangelical and fundamentalist circles. In April of … Continue reading

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The Apotheosis of Abraham Lincoln into the Arms of George Washington, Accompanied by Angels and Light Breaking Through Clouds

I love this. It was drawn by an anonymous artist in the 1860s and is now housed as part of the collection at the George Eastman House:

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What is amor fati?

What Friedrich Nietzsche took from Charles Darwin is the idea of radical contingency, and so Nietzsche’s amor fati  (love of fate) is an embrace of all of life’s contingencies. Do you have the courage to embrace your existential situation (what Sartre called … Continue reading

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Atheism and the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California

The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose has a staircase that famously ends at a ceiling. A friend and I were talking about the Winchester Mystery House and then abruptly shifted to a different subject: an acquaintance engaged in an ambitious and … Continue reading

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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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An atheist writes a song: the Flaming Lips’ “Vein of Stars”

Here’s a really good song with atheist lyrics (or at least agnostic ones): Here are the lyrics: Who knows? Maybe there isn’t a vein of stars calling out my name. No glow from above our heads. Nothing there to see … Continue reading

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Will We Play Harps in Heaven? And Will the Playing of Such Harps Constitute Hell? Oh, and Are We Already Playing Those Harps?

Where did the idea first come from that the saints in heaven play harps? I don’t know if this is the first Christian reference to harp playing in heaven, but it does go back a few hundred years. It’s from the … Continue reading

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Bruce Greyson on Near Death Experiences

Dr. Bruce Greyson is one of the leading academic researchers into the NDE phenomenon. He is a psychiatric researcher and teacher at the University of Virginia Medical School, and he co-edited a recent book on NDEs. Here he offers brief observations … Continue reading

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Ezekiel Saw the Wheel?

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Why We are Fascinated by UFOs?

Transcendence? With his big bug-eyed glasses, Lenny Kravitz comes across in this link as maybe an undercover alien, making an invitation to travel with him, don’t you think?: “Let’s go and see the stars. The Milky Way. And even Mars.” Hmm. … Continue reading

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Imagine There’s No Heaven in the Nuclear Equation with Iran?

Benjamin Netanyahu speaking today to the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg about Iran: Since the dawn of the nuclear age, we have not had a fanatic regime that might put its zealotry above its self-interest. People say that they’ll behave like any other … Continue reading

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“No hell below us / Above us only sky”: See Here John Lennon’s Original “Imagine” Video

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George Carlin on God and the Problem of Suffering

In memory of George Carlin (1937-2008), that Prometheus who stole comedy-fire from frowning heaven, and brought it to earth, relieving humans, if for only an hour, of their suffering, wherever God would not or could not. In one of his stand-up routines he … Continue reading

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