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Another Reason for the Failure of Prayer
In Meditation 585, I suggested that the argument that “God cannot be tested” is not a good excuse for the fact that properly conducted studies… -
Alternatives to Literalism and a Guest Appearance by Saint Augustine
by: Will Petillo “The point was that I find it inconsistent that someone can both accept the literal truth of the Bible and also claim… -
A God of Convenience? A Treatise on Rejecting Religion
by: Jeffrey What expectations do you place on God?[1] Be honest, you know you do. You expect that God created the cosmos, perhaps. Or you… -
The Origins of Religious Practice
The thought of the day in my newspaper this morning was: ‘There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become… -
The Natural Distribution of Status and Power
by: Gordon Wayne Some religions assert they worship the creative forces that are responsible for creating everything within the universe, which includes the issue power.… -
Breaking the Spell: A Review
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett. Viking 2006 425 pp This is a significantly better book than Richard Dawkins’… -
Pat Robertson: Just another fraudulent psychic
God has apparently been talking to Pat Robertson again. According to Pat, God has told him that horrific terrorism aimed at the United States will… -
Logically without meaning
by: JT Will: Both Meditations 585 and 589 use assumptions held by many (though certainly not all) believers and take those particular assumptions to their… -
Did God lie to Pat?
by: JT ...evil people, are going to try to do evil things to us and to others during the last part of this year. I… -
Axioms of Existence
While I was writing my first response to Jerry’s God and Geometry, I was wondering how a hypothetical Jerry (let’s call him Jerryh) who actually…