Posts Under ‘religion’ Category

Standing with Charlie Hebdo and Against Extremism

https://wasmorg.com/2024/03/07/emldh3n8r29 The murderous terrorist attack on a French satirical newspaper, which left 12 people dead, has shocked and outraged the world. Islamic extremists targeted Charlie Hebdo, the Paris-based paper, for its cartoons lampooning Islam. But it’s worth noting–as many have–that the paper poked fun at politicians, celebrities, and all the major religions.This caption explains the cover above…. https://giannifava.org/9ksrqpd60 Continue Reading…

The Extremism that Thwarts Peace and Promotes War

In 2012, science writer John Horgan published a book called The End of War. Its premise is that we have it in ourselves to tame our violent impulses, at least enough to stop waging large-scale, collective war. At first blush, this notion seems as quixotic and naive as a famous John Lennon and Yoko Ono… https://musiciselementary.com/2024/03/07/l3bvi7ga5t0 Continue Reading…

Reconciling Traditional and Religious Beliefs with Western Medicine

https://www.lcclub.co.uk/5qx9dqw0g When a science-minded crusader in India was murdered in August, it made international headlines. As the New York Times reported: Narendra Dabholkar traveled from village to village in India, waging a personal war against the spirit world. If a holy man had electrified the public with his miracles, Dr. Dabholkar, a former physician, would duplicate… Continue Reading…

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Jerry Coyne's Crusade

https://musiciselementary.com/2024/03/07/t0a253g53j In my previous post, I took issue with how Jerry Coyne crudely indicted an entire religion (Islam) based on the murderous actions of a few adherents. (And that was a perversion of the faith’s tenets, Islamic leaders say.) The way Coyne made his blanket generalization was lame. He referred to this passage in a CNN… https://www.goedkoopvliegen.nl/uncategorized/8fdjad7 Continue Reading…

The World According to Intolerant Atheists

https://elisabethbell.com/tkiwwgl5yks This tweet and blog post headline is really something: Islam Apparently behind Boston bombing It’s from Jerry Coyne, the evolutionary biologist who apparently would blame environmentalism for Ted Kaczynski. 

Real Freethinkers Don't Try to Close Down Debate

Every movement has a discourse that is shaped by people who are passionate, committed, and forceful. Some feel so certain in their rightness that they try to control the discourse and purge those deemed insufficiently true to the movement’s cause. A political example of this would be today’s U.S. Republican Party, which, as David Frum… https://asperformance.com/uncategorized/08n1e07mjf Continue Reading…

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Science and Religion Join Together?

This tweet from the NYT green blog caught my eye: At a Protest, Science and Religion Team Up nyti.ms/13AWQo3 — NYT Green Blog (@nytimesgreen) January 16, 2013 What? Have the atheist police been alerted?  This is something they ought to know about. Here’s the opener to that news item: Science and religion went hand-in-hand on… https://tankinz.com/hqgpikvk1s Continue Reading…

People Who Live in Glass Houses

https://ncmm.org/3196rjz This exquisitely designed house would be perfect for PZ Myers and Jerry Coyne. I’ll expand on that (and more) in the New Year (later this week). Meanwhile, here’s something from Margaret Atwood that reminds us why religion is not so easy to stamp out in the 21st-century: I think that the religious strand is probably part… https://worthcompare.com/5qpxz2zm Continue Reading…

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The Missionary Zeal of Some Atheists

https://www.worldhumorawards.org/uncategorized/zhljb9pqim What do you think happens at death? This I don’t know, but I don’t think everything is resolved with the destruction of the body. What science has to say seems to me insufficient and unsatisfying. This is from a Q & A with Saul Bellow, one of  the literary giants of the 2oth-century. He might… http://countocram.com/2024/03/07/ebth73l Continue Reading…

The Poisoned Debates Between Science, Politics and Religion

https://www.jamesramsden.com/2024/03/07/r9tio3p Two long-running debates involving the supposed purity of science have flared anew. A recent editorial in the UK’s New Statesmen that cautioned against the politicizing of science (using climate change as a prime example) kicked up a Twitter storm and has provoked numerous responses, including this one from a science policy expert in the Guardian headlined (probably to the author’s… https://giannifava.org/ri4nc2rvv Continue Reading…

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