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Religion, Atheism, Family Values: Are Religion & God Needed for Family Values? Christia... - 0 views

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  • None of the positive family values necessary for raising healthy children are undermined by being godless.
  • When it comes to good family values, atheists are more likely to be concerned about things like love, kindness, mutual respect, sacrifice, and building a better future together as a community.
  • Families are built by people who love each other working together for common goals.
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  • Families are defined by the love they have for each other and the work they do together, not by the specific genders involved, whether children are present, or even the number of people present.
  • Religion and theism aren't needed for family values or for strong families because the values which make families strong exist outside of religion.
  • Religion and gods aren't necessary for love. Or respect. Or self-sacrifice. Or mutual support.
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Should I Raise My Kids As Atheists? Atheism and Children - 0 views

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  • If you raise your children to be skeptical as a general rule, it won't be necessary to go out of your way to have them treat religious claims skeptically — they should end up doing that on their own anyway.
  • Skepticism and critical thinking are attitudes which must be cultivated across a broad range of topics
  • are you more interested in your children simply not being theists or religious, or are you more interested in your children not being the sort who accept claims and beliefs uncritically or who don't think for themselves?
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Defense of Godless Liberalism: Godless Liberalism, Godless Liberals, and American Politics - 0 views

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  • Godless liberalism should be defined as a liberal or progressive political perspective which doesn’t rely on gods, divine revelation, or religion for its values, ideas, or policies.
  • there is nothing about godlessness, liberalism, or the combination which deserves derision or hostility
  • the label is misused by the Christian Right in America
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  • not all liberals or everyone opposed to contemporary American conservative policies is a godless liberal
  • Godless liberals base their liberal or progressive political policies on philosophical considerations independent of religion
  • If you want to know what a godless liberal believes, you have to ask.
  • Godless liberals oppose basing public policy and civil laws on any religious doctrines or dogmas.
  • It’s one thing if someone’s position is influenced by religious values, but quite another to base a law on those values.
  • When religious conservatives attack something in society, politics, or law which they don’t like, there’s a good chance that they will attribute the problem to godless liberals.
  • being a godless liberal is not inherently bad. There is nothing wrong with basing one’s politics on something other than religion
  • there is nothing wrong with not being religious
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Reason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • 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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Red herring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • a clue which is intentionally or unintentionally misleading or distracting from the actual issue
  • a clue or lead that turns out not to be relevant to the solution of the mystery would also be a red herring
  • with a strong enough brine, turns its flesh red
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Wikipedia:Citation needed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • {{Citation needed}}
  • Exercise caution
  • If you can provide a reliable source for the claim, please be bold and replace the "Citation needed" template with enough information to locate the source.
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  • You may leave the copyediting to someone else
  • If someone tagged your contributions with "Citation needed" and you disagree, discuss the matter on the article's discussion page.
  • Controversial, poorly-sourced claims in biographies of living people should be deleted immediately.
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Wikipedia:Verifiability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • a reader's ability to check cited sources that directly support the information in an article
  • It must be possible to attribute all information in Wikipedia to reliable, published sources that are appropriate for the content in question.
  • Verifiability
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  • Neutral point of view
  • All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable published source
  • The citation should fully identify the source, and the location within the source (specifying page, section, or such divisions as may be appropriate) where the material is to be found.
  • The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material.
  • Editors might object if you remove material without giving them time to provide references. It has always been good practice to try to find and cite supporting sources
  • consider adding a citation needed tag
  • article
  • paper
  • or book
  • creator
  • document
  • publisher
  • published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy
  • Sources should directly support the material presented
  • appropriate to the claims made
  • academic and peer-reviewed publications are usually the most reliable sources
  • Material from reliable non-academic sources may also be used, particularly if it appears in respected mainstream publications.
  • university-level textbooks
  • books published by respected publishing houses
  • journals
  • magazines
  • mainstream newspapers
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Anthropic principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it
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Qualia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • individual instances of subjective, conscious experience
  • qualia is "an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us."
  • The way it feels
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  • what it is like
  • recognizable qualitative characters
  • it is purely subjective
  • intuited
  • cannot be communicated, or apprehended by any other means than direct experience
  • a normally sighted person who sees red would be unable to describe the experience of this perception in such a way that a listener who has never experienced color will be able to know everything there is to know about that experience
  • color
  • it is possible to make an analogy
  • such a description is incapable of providing a complete description of the experience
  • a perception
  • taste
  • it is by definition difficult or impossible to convey qualia verbally
  • What's it like
  • consciousness has an essentially subjective character, a what-it-is-like aspect
  • the subjective aspect of the mind may not ever be sufficiently accounted for by the objective methods of reductionistic science
  • subjective consciousness
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Premise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • a statement that an argument claims will induce or justify a conclusion
  • an assumption that something is true
  • In logic, an argument requires a set of (at least) two declarative sentences (or "propositions") known as the premises along with another declarative sentence (or "proposition") known as the conclusion
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  • complex arguments can use a series of rules to connect several premises to one conclusion, or to derive a number of conclusions from the original premises which then act as premises for additional conclusions
  • two premises and one conclusion forms the basic argumentative structure
  • any logical argument could be reduced to two premises and a conclusion
  • Premises are sometimes left unstated
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      missing premises
  • a tacitly understood claim
  • The proof of a conclusion depends on both the truth of the premises and the validity of the argument
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Syllogism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • one proposition (the conclusion) is inferred from two or more others (the premises) of a specific form
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Validity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • In logic, an argument is valid if and only if its conclusion is logically entailed by its premises and each step in the argument is logical.
  • An argument is valid if and only if the truth of its premises entails the truth of its conclusion and each step, sub-argument, or logical operation in the argument is valid.
  • What makes this a valid argument is not that it has true premises and a true conclusion, but the logical necessity of the conclusion, given the two premises.
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  • In order for a deductive argument to be sound, the deduction must be valid and all the premises true.

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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction and Fantasy : Another Word: Reading and Writing... - 0 views

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  • We learn about some of the most important things in our lives vicariously through fiction.
  • I’ve known a lot of people for whom books have been profoundly important
  • Fiction isn’t powerless. And if the author just ignores the politics of their work, that doesn’t mean the book becomes apolitical. It just means they wrote their own defaults.
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  • Think Black people are lazy and violent, but your work isn’t about that? I’ll bet you dollars to donuts it’s in there.
  • Reading is the same way.
  • He’s trying to be a better man and to create (in a small way) a better world by the way he chooses what he reads.
  • And it was a moral statement, even if it was mostly a private one.
  • How we read and how we write will always have moral and political implications. The only choice we’ve got is whether they’re unconscious or considered.
  • beautiful and damning distinction
  • best self
  • authentic self
  • Wanting to live in a better world is great. Working for a better world is great. It only becomes a vice when it keeps us from loving the world we’re in—warts and all. My experience is that life is full of strong women and weak ones. Venal ones. Active ones. Passive ones. Complicated ones. Unhealthy ones. Men are just as varied and complicated and screwed-up. Their lives aren’t our societal best self, but they’re who we are
  • Treating moral issues as if they were craft is asking for a literature of beautiful sermons.
  • reading projects that pull you out into different kinds of authors and stories are wonderful so long as the moral aspects of your reading list don’t become more important than the joy you take in reading
  • I would never argue that the power of story—and it’s a real power—comes without responsibility. But I would say that responsibility is both to the better world to which we aspire and also the broken, compromised one we live in now.

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