Tag: Magical Thinking
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The Deep Down Dirty Secret Inside Every Evangelical: They All Think THEY Are “God”
Ask ten people what “God” is, you’ll get ten different answers. That’s because “God” didn’t invent us, we invented “him”. Ask ten Evangelicals what “God” is and they’ll draw you a word picture that, if you stripped it of all the larger-than-life puffery would look exactly like them. For reference-sake, let’s remind ourselves that Jesus…
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Why Is It So Much Easier To Sell People Bullshit Than It Is To Give Them The Truth?
Magic is sparkly bullshit. It’s no more real just because it glitters a little.
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Republicans & The Culture Of Ignorance
Republicans didn’t always used to be champions of ignorance. Funny irony? When the Republican Party was founded back in 1854 (Abraham Lincoln was among its founders), their anti-slavery mission statement spoke of their dedication to classical liberalism and real economic opportunity for all Americans not just the moneyed class. As Heather Cox Richardson points out…
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People Who Believe In Magic Can Never Be Trusted — Because They Believe In Magic
You’re lying on a gurney, about to be wheeled into emergency surgery. The surgeon appears — big smile on his face — just before they put you under. “Nothing to worry about,” he says (a little too loudly), “You’re gonna be fine — I just know it! I prayed as hard as I could and…
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Maya Angelou Had It SOOOOOO Right – When People Tell You Who They Are…
If you want me to be your friend — but, the fact is, you hate Jews on sight — I’m not seeing a future for our relationship regardless of how much you tell me MY being Jewish isn’t an issue for you. That’s not the point, right? You’re an anti-Semite. It’s who you are. I…
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It Sucks Being Hated. It Sucks More When The Reason You’re Hated Is Entirely Based On Fiction
It sucks when the thing at the end of “I hate you because…” is bullshit. I’m a yid. A kike. A sheeny. I grew up part of a hated community. As a kid, you ask the obvious question — “But WHY do they hate me (never mind us)?” The answer you get back isn’t satisfying…
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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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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…