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// 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 [...]
// Ever since first studying Aristotle years ago, the quote has always stuck out at me: Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. As someone who has had many discussions, arguments and debates with many people on many issues, online and off, the issue of the proper balance between love of human and [...]
// One of the more curious attributes I have encountered among very intelligent and thoughtful religious people is the tendency to give great deference to traditional beliefs, and the texts in which those beliefs are written. For devout Christians, the Bible is given de facto preference, and they will quote from it liberally to validate [...]
// I recently have been engaged in a back-and-forth with some of the bloggers on Elect Exiles. One of the bloggers, Drew, put forward some ideas for proving the existence of god. I am addressing these here because they seem to be common arguments put forward by the religious. In reference to Richard Dawkins, Drew [...]
// Many religious people like to claim that a development for the appreciation of human rights, civil rights, and the like originated from religion. They point to this passage in the Bible, or that page of the Quran, or the leadership of various religious figures from Bartolome de las Casas to Martin Luther King Jr, [...]
