Category: Atheism
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True Fact: I’m An Atheist Who Loves Churches
I’m always fond of saying (or selling t-shirts that say) “I am grateful to Hebrew School for making me the atheist I am today” (the t-shirts also have “…grateful to Sunday School…” & “…grateful to Sunday School…” versions because I’m all about being inclusive). I suspect I was born an atheist but whatever lingering doubts…
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Dear Christians: Stop Listening To Paul; Listen to JESUS Instead
It sucks that an atheist has to explain Christianity to Christians. But — the fact is — atheists have a perspective on Christianity that Christians intrinsically lack (and can never get). THIS atheist — having perspective — sees a distinct difference between Jesus (the supposed “inventor” of Christianity and “Christianity” (his supposed “invention”). Oy. Where…
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If America’s Going To Heal Itself, FIRST, It Needs To Ditch The “Magical Thinking”
Believing in Magic is fun. It’s the deus ex machina side door out of anything hard and overly challenging. Like Life. In the theater, it’s “god from machine” — an ending that doesn’t actually add up or make sense but — it was time. It’s why religion proliferates still — even in the face of…
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Slavery Sucks. All Forms Of Slavery, That Is — Including The “Subtle” Ones…
Slavery has been a thing homo sapiens do (we don’t know if any other human species did it) since we figured out we could force someone else to work for free. Slavery, in its essence, is stolen labor. Yes, it’s a stolen life. But, from the point of view of the enslaver, the goal is…
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I Grew Up A Child Of The Holocaust
I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. You might think such an awful memory — so close in our rear view mirror — would have made my community so horrified that they couldn’t bear to discuss it. We went completely in the opposite direction. I wouldn’t say we…
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This Is A Moment In Time Where Magical Thinking Could Kill Us…
…that is if we follow Magical Thinkers and their bottomless capacity to believe utter nonsense is real. I draw a very clear distinction between ‘spirituality’ and ‘religious faith’ because there IS one. Even a humble atheist can feel a sense of awe as he or she gazes out at the cosmos — feels its vastness…
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The WORST Thing About Anti-Semitism Is How IRRATIONAL It Is…
A Thought Experiment: You walk into a room. Another person enters and punches you – hard. You ask — “What was that for?” And the other person responds “Because you killed my god”. Being a RATIONAL person who doesn’t want to get punched again — and who doesn’t want to resort to violence yourself —…
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American Culture Has A White-Christian-Male Bias & It Needs To Go
How many guilty Catholic priests does it take to screw in a light bulb? Better question — How many guilty Catholic priests (guilty of SCREWING children) does it take before a Culture opens its damned eyes? That blind spot isn’t the Catholic Church’s alone. The man who sexually assaulted me worked for a synagogue. Jews…