'Religion' Archive
June 4th, 2015 / Atheism, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Origins, Religion /
May 30, 1984. A spread of piercing green lasers sprayed 400 feet from behind the stage over my head and ...
June 25th, 2012 / Atheism, Books, Religion, Science /
Last night I had the privilege of speaking with particle physicist and New Atheist author Dr. Victor J. Stenger ...
September 11th, 2010 / Critical Thought, Current Affairs, Religion, Religion Inspired Murders /
[The human] moral sense licenses aggression against others as a way to prevent or punish immoral acts. That is fine ...
April 4th, 2010 / Religion /
In the past, I've discussed how Easter has been co-opted and corrupted by Christianity from what had been a pagan ...
February 11th, 2010 / Religion, Science /
I've maintained that religion and spirituality are inversely correlated with high-functioning intelligence. Â (previous article, Religion Rots Your Brain And ...
January 30th, 2010 / Atheism, Critical Thought, Psychology, Religion, Stupid Things /
Once in a while you strike Facebook gold. The kinds of discussions I used to have here on BSJ ...
January 3rd, 2010 / Religion /
Last night I watched CNN coverage of a shaken Kurt Westergaard, after he survived an attempt on his ...
December 24th, 2009 / Atheism, Humor, Newswire, Religion /
Can't get through the season without saying something about the annual "War on Christmas," that perverse ritual when Bill O'Reilly, Bill Donohue and the whole gang of U.S. cultural conservatives ...
November 8th, 2009 / Atheism, Critical Thought, Religion /
Editorials slamming "new atheism" as "strident," "tedious," "uninformed," or the kicker, "fundamentalist" crop up every week like new mushrooms sprouting ...
November 7th, 2009 / Atheism, Bigotry, Current Affairs, Religion /
In the grand scheme of American politics, the gay marriage issue seems like it should really be a footnote. It ...
September 14th, 2009 / Current Affairs, Humor, Newswire, Religion /
Apparently emboldened by the success of Prop. 8, it seems California religious nutters are now gathering signatures to put an initiative to ban divorce on the ballot in 2010. I still can't ...
September 4th, 2009 / Marketing, Religion /
Marketing as Seduction
We assume marketing relies on a certain amount of hype, and consumers willing to suspend their disbelief. But ...
August 24th, 2009 / Religion, Stupid Things /
My wife just mentioned a term I hadn't heard before:Â Glurge. But I've certainly experienced it. Now you can, too... Â You're welcome. The image below is exactly how this ...
May 31st, 2009 / Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Mark Prophet, Psychology, Religion /
Continued from Part 2
From campaign speeches to tent revivals to late-night talk radio, countless orators throughout human history have influenced, cajoled, inspired, and galvanized the ...
February 8th, 2009 / Atheism, Marketing, Newswire, Religion /
Religion has never needed much prodding to demonstrate its hypocrisy. It's almost a weekly perp-walk of the clergy across the world stage with their sexual indiscretions. Then there's the lying ...
February 6th, 2009 / Atheism, Newswire, Religion /
Wow, I shouldn't be surprised any more, but I always am. It seems the new-agers take the same apologetics used by religion, then add on top their notions of universal ...
January 2nd, 2009 / Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Psychology, Religion /
The imagination is the mind's active scratch pad--our source of daydreams. Here we try out new ideas, we work out conflicts, ...
December 16th, 2008 / Atheism, Newswire, Religion /
The Church of Atheism By DHRUV K. SINGHAL Its standard-bearers swarm across oceans and mountains, propagating a vitriolic doctrine of bigotry and intolerance ...
November 29th, 2008 / Celebrities, Newswire, Psychology, Religion /
Sex invariably spells trouble, says Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader, on Friday said sex spelt fleeting satisfaction and trouble later, while ...
November 27th, 2008 / Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Psychology, Religion /
The above tagline (without the single quotes, of course) used to be one of the ways Elizabeth Clare Prophet was billed when appearing on ...
November 25th, 2008 / Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Newswire, Religion /
More revisionist propaganda from CUT leaders in a new AP article: In March 1990, thousands of church members who had descended on the Yellowstone area entered the shelters to ...
November 23rd, 2008 / Atheism, Marquis de Sade, Religion /
Every time I reflect back on the absurdities I used to believe as a minister of The Summit Lighthouse and Church Universal & Triumphant ...
November 23rd, 2008 / Atheism, Bigotry, Newswire, Religion /
Controversial 'Imagine No Religion' billboard removed in Rancho Cucamonga A billboard with the message "Imagine No Religion" is no more. Sign company General Outdoor removed the sign by ...
November 16th, 2008 / Bigotry, Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
I love the energy at this anti-Prop. 8 protest in San Diego. This bad law is SO getting tossed. You can't write discrimination into the state constitution without a supermajority ...
October 23rd, 2008 / Newswire, Religion /
What other institution could get away with this? OAKLAND, California (CNN) -- Terrie Light stands outside Oakland's stunning new modern cathedral in a first-of-its-kind garden that honors victims ...