Pastor who tried out atheism for a year gives up on God ‘to have a closer relationship to reality’ The former pastor of a Seventh-day Adventist Church, who stepped down from his position before embarking on what he called a “Year without God.” rawstory.com[...]
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Sunday Revelations: Why don’t “people of color” convert from Buddhism, Hinduism, or state atheism to become AA Baptists?
Interesting thought.. Look at Bobby Jindall Recently he remarked that people of color have no problems excelling in the US if they behave like the majority…. in other words pass for white. Jindall is a convert to Roman Catholicism, Same is true for his female colleague Nicki Haley, the gun tot[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Why Bertrand Russell was wrong about atheism
I wish folks like Bertrand Russell would stop blaming all religion for the bad things about Christianity and Islam. Religions are a lot more divers than Americans seem to understand and, I suspect, no better and no worse than any of the other aspects of organized human behavior. What is bad is evang[...]
November 23rd, 2014 - 4:00 am § in Russia
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Russia Recovers From Atheism
Life Without God: Non-Believers in Post-Soviet Russia Russia’s main cathedral was destroyed in Soviet times © RIA Novosti 21:00 26/06/2012 By Alexey Eremenko, RIA Novosti Tags: WWII, Soviet Union, Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, Russia “It’s plain scary to be an atheist now. I know cases w[...]
May 12th, 2013 - 5:48 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Damning ALL religions equally, including atheism.
Islam and Christianity must renovate religion: Atheists have to stop trashing it One religion …….. is widely understood for its moral benefits. Buddhism – which, by its nature is a much less proselytising faith than the Abrahamic religions – stresses disengagement from worldly affair[...]
February 5th, 2012 - 6:26 am § in Politics
Sunday Revelations: Chernobyl was ‘punishment for state atheism’
© RIA Novosti. Andreі Mosienko The Chernobyl disaster was God’s punishment for Soviet atheism, according to Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church. by Andy Potts at 28/04/2011 Moscow News And he argued that the nuclear catastrophe 25 years ago was a vital step towards rebuilding a[...]
October 23rd, 2011 - 11:46 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Steve Jobs’ atheism
Walter Isaacson’s new biography portrays Steve Jobs at age 13 as giving up Christianity after seeing starving children on the cover of Life. Jobs asked his Sunday school pastor whether God knew what would happen to them. Jobs was skeptical of science as well. After learning he has pancreatic c[...]
January 9th, 2011 - 1:05 pm § in Religion
Atheism: The end of the debate
An Essay by a Professor of Theology, Keith Parsons Over the past ten years I have published, in one venue or another, about twenty things on the philosophy of religion. I have a book on the subject, God and Burden of Proof, and another criticizing Christian apologetics, Why I am not a Christian. Dur[...]
Atheism Christian Style
So many American and European intellectuals claim to be atheists. Yet, when, as a Jew, I ask them about holidays .. they all celebrate Easter with its ham and Christmas with its wonderful music evoking the birth of (their?) god. Of course, this is “just” cultural. But many of these at[...]