In my last blog post, I alluded very briefly and without much detail to Pope Joseph Ratzinger’s recent polemic against secularism, wherein he blamed secularism for the rise of Nazi Germany. I was immediately struck by how patently false and revisionist the claim was, and was honestly surprised to see it coming from such a …
Tag Archive: society
Aug 31 2010
TheoreticalBullshit on morality in absence of a deity
Well argued, TheoreticalBullshit. An excellent summary of the argument between religious folks and secular folks about where morality comes from, and defines my position pretty much to a tee. Morality is entirely a social construct, for the benefit of that society and the individual members therein. This is not a difficult concept to grasp.
Aug 07 2010
Let love reign supreme
Homosexuality is very likely biological, an emergent property from a confluence of genes that were selected for other reasons. That doesn’t make the people who are homosexual any less fully human, and my heart sings out that a federal judge in San Francisco has struck down California’s infamous Proposition 8 as unconstitutional in that it …
Jun 29 2010
Is religion compatible with science?
Dan J at Relatively Unrelated posts on a topic near and dear to my heart. I keep hearing the accommodationist mantra that religion is compatible with science (or vice versa). There have recently been issues regarding a person who happens to be a skeptic, while at the same time being Christian (of the Roman Catholic …
Jun 11 2010
13 year old Pennsylvania girl home-aborts with a pencil
This is absolutely heart-rending. A thirty-year-old Poconos man got his 13-year-old “girlfriend” pregnant, and seeing no other recourse, where the local clinics do not provide or refer abortions as they are very religiously oriented, she used a pencil to abort her pregnancy. The action made her sick for three days, after which she went into …
Jun 04 2010
Why prayer is nonsense – part 5
4 – Even if it IS useless, what’s the harm? This is the final part in a five-part series. Please see the Master Post if you haven’t already read the previous parts, because this part relies heavily on definitions and arguments that have been set down in those previous sections. so why pray? The conclusion …
May 28 2010
Why prayer is nonsense – part 4
3 – But everyone knows prayer works! This is part 4 in a series of posts on prayer. Please use the links at the top and bottom of each post to navigate through the parts. The master post is here. even if it IS useless, what’s the harm? Despite the evidence that most types of …
May 21 2010
Why Prayer is Nonsense – part 3
2 – Know your deities This is part 3 in a series of posts on prayer. Please use the links at the top and bottom of each post to navigate through the parts. but everyone knows prayer works! Everyone prays when your time comes or when you get into trouble, even atheists — or so …
May 17 2010
Why prayer is nonsense – part 0
By no means is this intended to be an exhaustive list of every theological discussion, every argument and counterargument, with regard to prayer’s efficacy. My aim with this series is to show why prayer is an ultimately useless endeavor, either devoid of any merit when defined narrowly, or if defined vaguely, indistinguishable from other mental …
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