“Civil rights advocates are ringing alarm bells about officials distributing ‘In God We Trust’ posters in Texas schools after a state law took effect requiring public campuses to display any donated items bearing that phrase,” the Guardian reported on Sunday, August 21, 2022 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Atheism’
February 2nd, 2019 - 2:13 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Does God Speak in DNA?
A “friend” on Facebook asked me if I believed that the “Bible” was the revealed truth of God. Since I know this “friend” is a Christian, I answered as follows: Well .. if you mean the Roman Bible … the one with miscellaneous pieces of Jewish history and writ[...]
June 17th, 2018 - 4:47 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: How religions differ
Sam Harris and Cenk Uygur argue about .. do religions differ? Are some good and some bad?[...]
February 11th, 2018 - 3:59 am § in America
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Evangelism for No God
Atheist evangelism: ‘Nothing new under the sun’ Claude Fischer, professor of sociology | 11/19/13 Atheists are getting evangelical and congregational, bemused press reports would have it. There are the international bus ad campaigns – “Why believe in a God? Just be good for goodness’ sak[...]
November 5th, 2017 - 1:17 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: God is usually not defined.
A mad scientist comments on God. I have never seen, touched or sensed God, but that may be because I lave never heard a description of God that would tell mne how I might encounter this reality. Te ling me you have met God does not help. Some claim to be God and others claim to hear G[...]
December 10th, 2015 - 10:38 am § in Misc.
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[...]
THE Ave DIALOG : A Norwegian and a Nigerian Debate Immigration
Knut Robert Knutsen I know that we have a problem in Norway with Christian churches taking an interest in Muslims who have been rejected for asylum but are undergoing the (tedious and often time consuming) appeals process. While they may not be persecuted in their country when they come here, if the[...]