from Huffington Post, Rabbi Laura Geller TAOISM: Bad things happen. BUDDHISM: If bad things happen, it isn’t really bad. HINDUISM: This bad thing happened before. ISLAM: If bad things happen, it is the will of Allah. PROTESTANTISM: Let bad things happen to someone else. CATHOLICISM: If bad thi[...]
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Florida State Bill Would Require Teaching Of ‘Non-Evolution’
“Why do we still have apes if we came from them?” The Huffington Post Nick Wing First Posted: 03/17/11 01:56 PM Updated: 03/17/11 04:00 PM Florida GOP State Senator Stephen Wise is drawing fire with a legislative proposal that would require schools in the Sunshine State to dramaticall[...]
April 1st, 2011 - 12:52 pm § in Religion
Feynman Besmirched, Scientific Community Bemused
Craig Venter misquotes Feynman in DNA Craig Venter Image: Wikipedia, PLoS Having singlehandedly sequenced the human genome, in a heric effort to prove the superiority of the capitalist system, Craig ventor has now taken the next step on the road pioneered by the Deity, Venter has created life itself[...]
“The US Congress has entered the intellectual wilderness.”
“Misinformation was presented as fact, truth was twisted and nobody showed any inclination to listen to scientists, let alone learn from them. It has been an embarrassing display, not just for the Republican Party but also for Congress and the US citizens it represents. One lawmaker last week [...]
The Wedge: A Chilling Tale of a Possible Future
The sun shone on another day of Summer Session on campus in a small college town. In a large yet somewhat stuffy lecture hall in one of the oldest buildings, the professor had reached a favorite part of his lecture on this period in European history. His voice didn’t drone on—it rose as [...]
The Beatification of a Pope
by Bill Briggs, Huffington Post, excerpted Critics of (John Paul’s) sainthood … are simply asking is: did he, as pope, offer a blueprint that we, as humans, should be following?….. As I reported my book, The Third Miracle, the Indiana nun who spearheaded the campaign for the most r[...]
Of Blasphemy and Blame I
Comment on HorsesAss: Two writers discussing who really killed Jesus. “Well, yeah…it was the Romans who whipped Jesus and then nailed what was left him to a cross—while the Jews applauded. All in all, rather like the rabble in a great many places attending public torture and executions as [...]
March 27th, 2011 - 10:11 am § in Religion
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Who Wrote The Bible and Why It Matters
A Very Worthwhile Read in the Age of Radical American Fundamentalism.[...]
OF BLASPHEMY AND BLAME II
A week ago, I posted a comment on the Pope’s recent assertion that only a few Jews of Jesus time were guilty of deicide. My main argument was that the Pope, in the tradition of his predecessors, avoided the real issue … blaming Rome for its brutality toward the Jews.1700 years [...]
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
By Thomas Jefferson The Smithsonian is restoring the “Jefferson Bible.” a unique volume the third president cut and pasted himself — omitting lots of theology — from portions of the New Testament. Thomas Jefferson assembled his version of the Christian bible in 1820, after [...]