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A Film That Appears To Be Worth Seeing
This looks good and has gotten a lot of recent attention and critical acclaim. It has also generated controversy. It opens in New York and Los Angeles May 24, 2013. Directed by Rasha Burshtein, an Orthodox Jewish woman who lives … Continue reading
Let Freedom Sing: Feminism Under Fire in Israel
The intellectual and cultural rot of religious fundamentalism continues its 21st century spread. This is in Haaretz today: Secular and religious cabinet members engaged in a heated discussion over the issue of women’s rights in Israel on Sunday, forcing Prime … Continue reading
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Tagged equality, feminism, freedom, fundamentalism, gay rights, Israel, Judaism, Martin Luther King, orthodoxy, women's rights
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When Gay and Anti-Gay Teddy Bears Dialogue
To my mind, this imaginative dialogue between two teddy bears perfectly exposes the intellectual incoherences of the anti-gay rights movement.
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Tagged critical thinking, dialogue, equal rights, gay equality, gay rights, God, Judaism, lesbian, orthodoxy, reason, religion, teddy bears
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No Women or Secular Rationalists Need Apply: A Little Introduction to the Greek Peninsula of Athos
The internet magazine, Religion Dispatches, has an interesting article on the peninsula of Athos in Greece, a haven for Greek and Russian Orthodox believers to cultivate a closer walk with God. Or maybe not. If God, after all, turns out to be a woman … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, athos, Christianity, creationism, orthodoxy, Richard Dawkins, saints, The God Delusion, the priesthood, women's equality, women's rights
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The Human Bones Discovered at Masada: An Example of Religion Hindering Science
At the academic web magazine, Bible and Interpretation, anthropologist Joe Zias complains about ultra-orthodox Jews hindering archaeology and anthropology: For several decades self-appointed groups of the ultra-orthodox have been waging an all out cultural war against the archaeological community in general and … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, Bill Maher, fundamentalism, Islam, Judaism, masada, orthodoxy, philosophes, pilate, the Enlightenment, truth
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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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Tagged apologetics, Christianity, cruelty, evangelicalism, God, Jesus, love, orthodoxy, reason, religion, the Bible, the politics of humanity
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Prometheus Unbound 