Monthly Archives March 2010

Belief is not knowledge

Whether you believe there is one god, no god or many gods, your belief is no better than any of the others. You may believe in a compassionate god while others believe in a vengeful god. You are no closer to the truth than the others. No one knows there is or isn’t a god.
Perhaps [...]

Bible diminishes this life

Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. – Philippians 2:4
That is the kind of advice from the Bible that sounds good but is off the mark; we should look to our own interests. Sounds selfish, right? I believe we should be selfish PROVIDED WE UNDERSTAND WHAT [...]

Liberals and atheists are smarter

Liberals and atheists are more intelligent than conservatives and the faithful. The theory put forward by Staoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science, is that anyone can go along with the usual but; the ability to think and reason has helped our species recognize and understand unusual situations [...]

Free thinker’s Satan’s slave?

“A FREE THINKER IS SATAN’S SLAVE!” read the signboard of the New Canaan, Connecticut Baptist Church.
This church must know its flock well and know that there will not be any thinking, free or otherwise, going on when they read this.
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines a free thinker as “one who forms opinions on the basis [...]