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Jaakko Wallenius

Skeptic's Annotated Bible / Quran / Book of Mormon - 0 views

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    The King James Version of the Bible presented from a skeptic's point of view.
Jaakko Wallenius

Sam Harris: Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks - Politics on The Huffington Post - 0 views

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    Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks - The Huffington Post
Jaakko Wallenius

Does eating pork unknowingly endanger a Muslims eternal salvation? - The Atheist News - 0 views

  • have always wondered if a person can be held divinely responsible for violating the dietary restrictions imposed by various religions also when people are eating forbidden foodstuffs without having any change of knowin
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    Eating is the most basic human activity and divisions based on the eating habits work at the very basic level. That is the main reason why religions are so extremely interested in what their followers are eating and what not.
Jaakko Wallenius

Will they finally kick Scientology out of France? - The Atheist News - 0 views

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    This 'religious' organization can now operate with impunity all over the world, even if the greedy strategies of extracting money from the followers of this 'faith' have been exposed over and over again and even proved in the court of law in many countries over decades.
Jaakko Wallenius

The Pope strikes back in Facebook - The Atheist News - 0 views

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    The Only True Church is now however in a real danger of ending up in the sidelines in western societies, where it truly belongs with other fringe cults like it, and so it is finding desperately ways to modernize its image so tarnished by its extremely old-fashioned real life actions
Jaakko Wallenius

Does the modern medicine have some kind of Christian roots? - Being Human - 0 views

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    The modern system of medical care is now one of the basic tasks of the welfare state and it has nothing to do with the old Christian principles of handing out self-selected amount of charity to the poor.
Jaakko Wallenius

A shocking sex scandal in the Catholic Church - a man kissed a woman - The Atheist News - 1 views

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    A shocking sex scandal in the Catholic Church - a man kissed a woman
Jaakko Wallenius

Christians in dire straits in the Middle East - The Atheist News - 0 views

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    The Middle East under the Muslim rule has in practice became an open air museum of Christianity where many of the oldest forms of that faith haven been preserved in their crude and original banality.
Jaakko Wallenius

Roxana Saberi fights herself free - The Atheist News - 0 views

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    Roxana Saberi fights herself free
Jaakko Wallenius

Why metaphorization of the Bible is a good thing? - Being Human - 0 views

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    This process of metaprorization is in fact a valuable aid in finally pushing these age-old and quite worn-out beliefs to the margins of the society.
Jaakko Wallenius

Is blasphemy going to be a crime in Ireland? - The Atheist News - 0 views

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    Many have even started to hope that Ireland could finally be on the road of becoming a normal catholic country like Italy or France, where the Church has no real say anymore in the true daily running of the society, even if the religious façade is still there often quite intact.
Jaakko Wallenius

Why the Christians have succeeded in warping our view of history? - Being Human - 0 views

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    The real problem is that our view of history has been largely created and modeled by these hordes of Christian writers under many centuries.
David Corking

AC Grayling on 2 cultures, civil liberties & technology (Edge: PRESSING QUESTIONS FOR O... - 0 views

  • after 9/11 especially, there was a watershed. A polarization occurred.
  • Religious people have for a very long time said, "Respect me because I believe something." Now secularists are saying, "Why should I, especially if it's a belief in something that I don't share or that I think is challengeable?"
  • John Polkinghorne, wrote a book trying to show that religion has answers to scientific questions. He launched this book on the premises of the Royal Society in London — not sponsored by the Royal Society, but because he was a fellow of the Royal Society before he became a priest,
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  • the education that we get in grade school and college is really just the first step out of many thousands of steps
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    "state of the nation" interview of well-known philosopher and science commentator
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