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Reason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • the capacity human beings have to make sense of things, to establish and verify facts, and to change or justify practices, institutions, and beliefs
  • a definitive characteristic of human nature
  • sometimes referred to as rationality
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  • Reason is closely identified with the ability to self-consciously change beliefs, attitudes, traditions, and institutions, and therefore with the capacity for freedom and self-determination
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Edict of Milan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • proclaimed religious freedom in the Roman Empire
  • signed by emperors Constantine I and Licinius
  • issued in AD 313
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    The Edict of Milan (Edictum Mediolanense) was a letter signed by emperors Constantine I and Licinius that proclaimed religious freedom in the Roman Empire.
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Ignosticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • if that definition is unfalsifiable, the ignostic takes the theological noncognitivist position that the question of the existence of God (per that definition) is meaningless
  • a coherent definition of God must be presented before the question of the existence of God can be meaningfully discussed
  • the concept of God is not considered meaningless; the term "God" is considered meaningless
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  • "What is meant by 'God'?"
  • Some philosophers have seen ignosticism as a variation of agnosticism or atheism,[1] while others have considered it to be distinct.
  • An ignostic maintains that they cannot even say whether they are a theist or an atheist until a sufficient definition of theism is put forth.
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Transhumanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Transhumanism, often abbreviated as H+ or h+, is an international intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.
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Gabrielle Giffords - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Giffords is pro-choice
  • Giffords strongly supports renewable energy, in particular solar energy, as a top public policy priority.
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Subjective validation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • a cognitive bias by which a person will consider a statement or another piece of information to be correct if it has any personal meaning or significance to them
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Forer effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • individuals will give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people
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Beliefs - 0 views

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20th Century - Investigating Atheism - 0 views

  • Russell had scruples about describing himself as an atheist as opposed to an agnostic in the strictest philosophical sense, but preferred to describe himself as an atheist in most contexts.
  • religion is a mere superstition, and largely harmful in its effects
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Atheism & Morality - Investigating Atheism - 0 views

  • In the strict sense atheism only entails disbelief in God, so in principle atheists can hold a range of ethical beliefs
  • there are perfectly good nontheistic grounds for being moral
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Legacy - Investigating Atheism - 0 views

  • an evolutionary explanation of the altruistic moral instincts
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Atheism & Meaning - Investigating Atheism - 0 views

  • exaggerated anxiety about death
  • so long as we are here they are meaningful
  • human beings find individual projects intrinsically meaningful regardless of whether their lives as a whole are meaningful
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  • evidence that the sum total of human achievement will be annihilated in the heat death of the universe, as is supposed to be highly probable on current physical predictions, does not make present human cultural achievements meaningless for us now
  • death has no significance for human beings, since by definition they cannot be there to experience it.
  • there are happy and fulfilled atheists
  • Adopting a detached 'God's eye' view on things from where the sum of human activity can be seen to be meaningless is just one perspective humans can take up towards things, but humans are not obliged to adopt this perspective rather than the ordinary (meaningful) one, and they therefore need not become despondent.
  • the progressive improvement of the human condition would be achieved through the weakening of the influence of religion
  • human beings find themselves in a meaningless ('absurd') world and need to create meaning and purpose in their lives in absolute freedom, since there is no pre-existent meaning or purpose to life
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The Myth of Militant Atheism | Psychology Today - 0 views

  • When the media and others refer to a "militant atheist," the object of that slander is usually an atheist who had the nerve to openly question religious authority or vocally express his or her views about the existence of God.
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