Ecology and rationalism
As an alternative to religion, ecology seems more viable than secular humanism. Secular Humanism, like religion, seems to result from over-estimating the ecological and cosmological […]
atheism
Mind, matter, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
You might find useful, according to your own lights, the following excerpt from a book called Science and Nonbelief by Taner Edis. It’s from chapter […]
Notes on theology 9-20-14, taken from an email correspondence
I will try to answer regarding one of the Brothers Karamazov characters claiming, “if the soul of man is not immortal, anything is permissible, even […]
Correspondence regarding theism and atheism
Here is one of several emails in a correspondence with someone by the name of Joshua Richards whom I met at the Whetstone branch of […]
Islamophobia
Atheist writer Sam Harris makes a sweeping indictment against hundreds of millions of human beings by claiming in his book, Letter to a Christian Nation, […]
Martin Luther King Jr and becoming a better atheist
Last year the The American Conservative published an article about the US war in Vietnam. Reading it reminded me of the speech Martin Luther King […]
Spiritual Love Notes
I obviously don’t have a detailed plan for a movement that creates common good, egalitarianism and ecological responsibility. But I do know I intend to […]
An atheist appreciation of religion ?
As for the Bible quote, people can find a quote for just about anything they want to advocate. They’ve done it to try to justify […]
Part 2 of An Atheist Appreciation of Religion and Mysticism
As an atheist, I’m coming to see that it’s unscientific and irrational to sweepingly disregard religion and mysticism. There is much to draw inspiration from […]
Talk about love ?
To what extent do you yourself feel inclined toward talking with people about love, or as Christians call it, ‘agape’, front and center ? From […]