'Spirituality' and the vastness of our minds
This is part of a thread on Columbus Underground Generally, the capacity of the human brain for data collection, and perhaps synthesis as well, is […]
religion
'Spiritual Love' ?
For me, that term connotes deep and broad purpose. It’s doing my imperfect best–intellectually, emotionally, and practically–to improve the ratio of well-being to suffering. It […]
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. […]
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 […]
Science, compared to religion, as a means to 'knowing'
My comments in response to yours are in brackets, with dashes separting sentences to help with ease of reading. Thanks . Tom your too intellectual […]