Religion

Why We Shouldn't Stop Rev. Jones' Quran Burning Party

09.08.2010

In a misguided attempt to right the wrongs perpetrated by Islamic radicals on 9/11, Rev. Jones is planning to burn Qurans this Saturday. While he does have the right to do so, should they?

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Religion: Anachronistic Perhaps, Yet Still Valuable

08.25.2010

Religion might be anachronistic, but studying religion and accepting it as part of society is crucial in understanding human nature, human cultures, and ourselves as self-conscious beings.

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Not All Atheists Against Mother Theresa Stamp

02.01.2010

An atheist organization called the Freedom From Religion Foundation has come out against the US Postal Service’s new stamp commemorating the late Mother Teresa, because she is a religious figure.  Naturally, an uproar on the blogosphere has ensued and rightly so.  This type of inflammatory event is precisely what many bloggers – on both sides [...]

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Ft. Hood Tragedy Polarizes Nation Immediately

11.10.2009

Major Nidal Hasan sure got both sides spewing their rhetoric. One side uses the tragedy as an excuse to condemn all of Islam and its followers and to justify the wars in the Middle East.  The other side condemns those who condemn Islam. As the picture becomes clearer about Hasan and his extremist views, those [...]

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Explaining The Gay Marriage Thing

05.29.2009

Jacob Dickerman wants to know if someone out there can explain the gay marriage thing. I’ll take a stab at it with one word: RELIGION. I suppose it gets a little deeper than that.  It also stems from a moral superiority complex that is derived from the blind following of certain judgmental religious doctrines.  It’s [...]

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Gay Marriage Rights are not about Religion

04.16.2009

New York may be the next state in line to allow same-sex marriage.  Gov. David Paterson (D-NY) introduced a bill to follow in the footsteps of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Iowa. Of course, he’s got himself a lot of opposition.  Not surprisingly, this opposition consists of the religious community, particularly from Sen. Ruben Diaz of [...]

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Yeah, Iowa!!!

04.03.2009

I love Iowa.  I loved it when I visited it last month on tour.  And I loved it when I was there last year for my friend’s wedding. And I now I love it because it has – unanimously – become the third state in the union to legalize gay marriage. The Iowa Supreme Court [...]

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AIDS Is Not A Moral Disease

03.17.2009

This is one of the main problems I have with blind religious dogma.  Instead of seeing the AIDS epidemic as what it is – a biological disease – Pope Benedict XVI clouds the issue in morality.  AIDS is not a punishment to gays and those who engage in premarital or extramarital sex so can we [...]

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If I “Quote” It, I Don’t Have to “Believe” It

03.03.2009

This has been really annoying the hell out of me lately.  It’s nothing new but it has been getting way more acceptable in everyday conversation and writing that people aren’t even questioning it anymore. Just because you put quotes around a word doesn’t invalidate its meaning simply because you don’t want to acknowledge it. Gay [...]

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The Absurdity of Prayer-Based Healthcare

02.26.2009

To a secularist, prayer is essentially equivalent to wishful-thinking.  It’s the kind of thinking that a student does when he hasn’t studied for an exam and hopes to God that he’ll miraculously recall the information needed to pass.  Odds are that if you truly haven’t studied the material, you’re not going to do well on [...]

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