Jehovah Phinias (spelling? )
A fellow activist with whom I spoke on multiple occasions threw away a few stacks of postcards with this message on it because of thinking […]
religion
Does abstinence enhance one's capacity to love ?
In desperation and fear I grasped at celibacy when I was 18 and wasn’t able to lie to myself anymore about being bisexual. I have […]
Religions bear the marks of human fallibility
( From Spring 2000, transferred from other section of this site) I don’t see how anyone can say that Christianity is not a pick-and-choose affair. […]
(Draft in need of revision) Love, not religious or political fundamentalism, is the answer to the problems of modernity
Hello, yesterday one of the people of your organization doing outreach at Broad and High asked “if you say the laws shouldn’t be based on […]
More notes on religion
It may be the case that fundamentalism and fanaticism will increase in the short to midterm as religiosity overall declines in the longrun, barring the […]
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 […]
Rationalism does not make our attitude toward life degrading
Science isn’t limited to studying chemical reactions. Again, I refer you to the social and behavioral sciences, which are still sciences, even though they are […]
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 […]
Charter for Compassion
The following organization was started by Karen Armstrong, who writes about religion in a way that is rigorous in terms of the humanities and the […]