Tag: Religion
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There’s A Huge Honkin’ Difference Between Being “Spiritual” & Being “Religious”
Even a stone cold atheist can feel profound awe as he or she stares up at the stars. Atheists especially understand the scale — tiny human on a rock at the far edges of a galaxy in the middle of a billion galaxies feeling both his insignificance in the greater scheme of things while also…
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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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HELP! We’re Trapped In A False Narrative & Can’t Get Out!
The most painful part of listening to or watching the news channels these days is the constant barrage of false narratives. The biggest false narrative of all, of course, is that Donald Trump got elected. He may have been given the victory but he lost the popular vote by over 3 million votes (it would…
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An Atheist’s Easter Sermon: Why REALITY Matters More Than Ooga-Booga
Christmas is a pagan holiday redirected. For all its “holiness”, all its fanciful storytelling about Wise Men from the East and stars that shine above spots on a planet light years away from them, Christmas still celebrates something; it’s a happy holiday. Easter, on the other hand, is about Christianity’s core message: “Jesus died (but…
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The ‘Good News’ Is The Bad News: We’re ALL Making It Up As We Go Along…
What “is”? Maybe the better question is: “What ISN’T?” What isn’t TRUE? Every single one of us faces that question multiple times every single day. We base the success of a day on how well we navigate that question. “What should I wear today? The weather forecast said rain but they’re wrong so often…?” In…
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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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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…