… give or take
// Religion generally claims absolute and exclusive truth. Yet most religions were created long before modern notions of freedom, justice, fairness, science, reason or logic. So it should come as no surprise when hilarious and ludicrous outcomes result from religious encounters with the changing circumstances of the modern world. Authorities in Thailand recently indicated they [...]
// The idea of many is that Israel “has a right to exist,” which really means it “has a right to continue to exist” (since something that doesn’t exist cannot possibly have any rights, logically). On what basis? At bottom, the thinking goes, it is on the basis that the Jews constitute a distinctive ethnic [...]
// Here is a (relatively) old video I came across where physicist Steven Weinberg shares his thoughts on religion and its pernicious effects. In reference to George Bush’s idea that Islamic terrorists have “hijacked” an otherwise “good” religion, he says the following: I think, for example, George Bush said that these terrorists have hijacked a great [...]
