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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 [...]
// A very common argument of many religious people is that a secular, humanist or materialist worldview leads inevitably to moral relativism. Since, on this way of thinking (they argue), there is nothing inherently special or unique about human beings—we are just bags of water and proteins who happen to have evolved some tendency toward [...]
// A very common argument of many religious people is that a secular, humanist or materialist worldview leads inevitably to moral relativism. I will deal with the fact that secular reason can, in fact, produce moral absolutes in another post. For now, I will take the religious’ assertion and turn it on its ear: religion, in [...]
// Image from a new infrared telescope. Beat that, “Lord of the Israelites.” More in Wired magazine.
// 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 [...]
