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9/11 again

This year, I’ll be brief:(With thanks to Non Credo Deus) Copyright © 2007 Way of the Mind

Started in Way of the Mind • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: fanaticism, violence, religion, 9/11, terrorism
Why non-belief is the rational position to take

The “Is There a God?” has a new post called I’m not an atheist, I’m areligious. I was writing a comment there, but it was getting too long, so I’m posting it here. While I agree...

Started in Way of the Mind • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: agnosticism, atheism, religion
Dawkins on "atheism takes as much faith as theism"

Other people have already mentioned this review of Hitchens’ “god is not Great” by Richard Dawkins, so merely telling you about it is fairly useless. However, I just have to share...

Started in Way of the Mind • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: christianity, religion, christopher hitchens, god is not great, richard dawkins
Religion and Smoking

There’s a very nice new post on A Load of Bright about the similarities of religion and… smoking. I absolutely loved this part: Isn’t if funny how only smokers crave cigarettes? ...

Started in Way of the Mind • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: religion
How does "the universe exists" imply Christianity?

C. S. Lewis wrote, in 1945: I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. Now, I perfectly understand that, if...

Started in Way of the Mind • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: christianity, c. s. lewis, c.-s.-lewis
My attempt at Hemant’s "Short and Sweet" questions

Hemant of Friendly Atheist, recently, challenged atheists to come up with very short answers to a number of common theist questions. A couple of bloggers have already answered them on their blogs,...

Started in Way of the Mind • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: atheism
Fundamentalists to "militant" atheists… and agnostics

Readers of Planet Atheism have probably seen this several times today: Fundamentalists: believe 2+2=5 because It Is Written. Somewhere. They have a lot of trouble on their tax...

Started in Way of the Mind • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: agnosticism, atheism, religion
Gullibility Test

Hermann Klinke emailed me recently about this Gullibility Test. It’s relatively short, and may be educating in some areas. I got a “91% free thinker” result, which is quite good,...

Started in Way of the Mind • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: reality, gullibility test, gullibility-test
A suggested reply to "America is a Christian nation"

Years ago, it was also a “slavery nation”. Your point…? (inspired by vjack’s post) Copyright © 2007 Way of the Mind

Started in Way of the Mind • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: short posts, christianity
8 random things about me

Like I said in the previous post, I’ve been tagged by several other members of Planet Atheism, a couple of times (3 times here, one on the PA announcements blog). I’m supposed to write 8...

Started in Way of the Mind • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: personal stuff