Re: …where I worry about sounding like one of those animal rights wackos
Why would you 'need to hold your position anyway' on abortion?Imagine a guy comes along and chains a ton of dirt to your back, and then I tell you you aren't allowed to cut those chains just because...
View ArticleRe: Humanism. Build or Remodel?
Regarding the Hail Mary, it occurs to me that here is one catholic incantation that honors woman in the midst of misogynistic doctrine. The young woman may have a compelling personal reason to reclaim...
View ArticleRe: Whatever. Just don’t rub my nose in it!
Good points, Don. I don't always provide strict filters for posts either. It's the nature of this particular media and discussions are necessarily a part of it.
View ArticleRe: Humanism. Build or Remodel?
That it is insanely important that Mary be a virgin underlines that women are considered property and that her value depends on her 'purity'. This is nicely written piece that makes its case very well...
View ArticleRe: Informed naturalism
>Explaining morality, consciousness, abiogenesis, dark matter and dark energy should remind all of us that we are still groping in the dark.Recently, big steps have been taken on abiogenesis Jeremy...
View ArticleRe: Counterfeiting religion
Well said, sir. Your reasoning is why, as an atheist, I have refused to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance since I was 15, and passed on the offer to attend the US military academy of my choice....
View ArticleRe: Counterfeiting religion
Thanks, Jeff. I think Gandhi was right that religion is mostly politics. This puts words and beliefs way down the list of concerns. They are casually butchered every Sunday at my UU church.Here's the...
View ArticleRe: Nothing requires religion, except religion
PS, I left the UU church in Feb, 2015. And I now hold the same view about the word 'church'. There's no sense calling an organization a church if it isn't a religious institution.
View ArticleRe: Counterfeiting religion
I can admire the hard line that you draw in your purity of approach. Any acquiescence is easily perceived as complete support by an observer. It is this approach that also makes it harder to be...
View ArticleRe: The Lucky People
Please don't feed the Marxist troll. He is incapable of arguing coherently, has no understanding of the world we live in, and is abusive. People like him think something is true if they believe it hard...
View ArticleRe: Happy endings don’t erase suffering. And I wouldn’t want them...
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View ArticleRe: Who are you to speak for Thor?
Well said! I've always been uncomfortable with using scripture to battle scripture. It makes no sense. No one is ever convinced they are wrong.
View ArticleRe: Talking past each other
What an excellent post.You described and debunked an all-too-common problem.Well done.Islam is embedded in a culture that never experienced an Enlightenment, so it seems self-evident to them that...
View ArticleRe: Talking past each other
Thanks, Ann, are you a UU member? I'm on the fence myself, but I keep going because there are more atheists at my local UU church than anywhere else in town.
View ArticleRe: Talking past each other
We have a big UU presence here in Boston, as you no doubt can imagine, and I have dropped in on them many times -- including participating in some "good works." http://www.ascboston.org/But in the end,...
View ArticleRe: Talking past each other
A few follow-up points:Mark said:"We grow through sharing, not debate."Well, we can't be moral if we don't notice the consequences of various positions. We don't have to try to convince, but neither...
View ArticleRe: Talking past each other
Mark says that 'attempts to eliminate non-coercive religious expressions...are not only doomed to fail they are dangerous in their self-righteous certainty and are at odds with UUism'.Well, that sounds...
View ArticleRe: Talking past each other
In closing, Mark exhorted us not to take his words as final, and to continue the Creative Interchange. I haven't heard from him since he unfriended me several months ago. It seems he has some rules for...
View ArticleRe: The Honeymoon’s Over
believing that a god will alter the direction of the universe for my benefit is the epitome of narcissism. belief in a god is an emotional default position arrived at after failure to find answers to...
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