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The Mahablog - 0 views

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The Atheist Illusion - 0 views

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The Atheist Illusion (or, here is where I psychoanalyze the "New Athiests") Sam Harris is in the media again, this time conversing with Rick Warren. Overall, I was somewhat disappointed with Warren, but he said one thing that I believe is a pretty devastating critique of the new atheists. Warren says to Harris,"You will not admit that it is your experience that makes you an atheist, not rationality."
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Creationism dismissed as 'a kind of paganism' by Vatican's astronomer - 0 views

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He described creationism, whose supporters want it taught in schools alongside evolution, as a "kind of paganism" because it harked back to the days of "nature gods" who were responsible for natural events. Brother Consolmagno argued that the Christian God was a supernatural one, a belief that had led the clergy in the past to become involved in science to seek natural reasons for phenomena such as thunder and lightning, which had been previously attributed to vengeful gods. "Knowledge is dangerous, but so is ignorance. That's why science and religion need to talk to each other," he said.
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"Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism - it's turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do."
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the idea of papal infallibility had been a "PR disaster". What it actually meant was that, on matters of faith, followers should accept "somebody has got to be the boss, the final authority"
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Top 15 Quotes By Famous Atheists - The List Universe - 0 views

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Faith vs. the Faithless - New York Times - 0 views

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It is not always easy to blend an argument for religious liberty with an argument for religious assertiveness, but Romney did it well.
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The supposed war between the faithful and the faithless has exacted casualties. The first casualty is the national community.
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The second casualty of the faith war is theology itself.
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In this calculus, the faithful become a tribe, marked by ethnic pride, a shared sense of victimization and all the other markers of identity politics. In Romney’s account, faith ends up as wishy-washy as the most New Age-y secularism. In arguing that the faithful are brothers in a common struggle, Romney insisted that all religions share an equal devotion to all good things. Really? Then why not choose the one with the prettiest buildings?
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In order to build a voting majority of the faithful, Romney covered over different and difficult conceptions of the Almighty. When he spoke of God yesterday, he spoke of a bland, smiley-faced God who is the author of liberty and the founder of freedom. There was no hint of Lincoln’s God or Reinhold Niebuhr’s God or the religion most people know — the religion that imposes restraints upon on the passions, appetites and sinfulness of human beings. He wants God in the public square, but then insists that theological differences are anodyne and politically irrelevant. Romney’s job yesterday was to unite social conservatives behind him. If he succeeded, he did it in two ways. He asked people to rally around the best traditions of America’s civic religion. He also asked people to submerge their religious convictions for the sake of solidarity in a culture war without end.
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