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'Religion' Archive
The Pseudo Science of the Spoken Word: Part 3
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 ...
The Atheist Bus Sides
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 ...
New-Age ‘Spiritual Living’ Confusion
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 ...
Slaying the Supernatural Imagination
The imagination is the mind's active scratch pad--our source of daydreams. Here we try out new ideas, we work out conflicts, ...
Harvard Crimson Prints “Atheism is Faith” Canard
The Church of Atheism By DHRUV K. SINGHAL Its standard-bearers swarm across oceans and mountains, propagating a vitriolic doctrine of bigotry and intolerance ...
Dalai Lama Slams Sex in Post-Hoc Rationalization
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 ...
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, ‘Clairvoyant’
The above tagline (without the single quotes, of course) used to be one of the ways Elizabeth Clare Prophet was billed when appearing on ...
CUT Leaders Deny 1990 Nuclear War Prediction
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 ...
CUT Doctrine More Complicated, Absurd than Christianity
Every time I reflect back on the absurdities I used to believe as a minister of The Summit Lighthouse and Church Universal & Triumphant ...
They Can Dish It Out, But They Can’t Take It
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 ...
Prop. 8 Protest - A Beautiful Sight
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 ...
Putting the Perps in Charge of ‘Healing’
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 ...
Abstinence Marriage Challenge Draws No Takers
A "challenge" promising $10,000 for a wedding to couples who agree to abstain from sex and undergo religious counseling is going down in flames. No one has stepped up ...
Mormons Blackmail Student Over Diploma
Apparently, diplomas are conditional and can now be revoked at will. If there was ever a better argument for secularizing all colleges, I haven't heard it. This action also ...
Joseph Genito: Unrepentant Stooge for the ‘Messengers’
Joseph Genito is a man I've known from the time I was a child. He has been a member of the CUT community for most ...
“Be Sealed” Against The Truth
A seal is supposed to separate the desirable from the undesirable, like an airlock on a spacecraft, a ring on a piston, or a ...
Religulous Is Riling Believers
Jacques Berlinerlblau, program director and associate professor of Jewish Civilization at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, thinks Religulous is like screaming "suicide ...
Red Lenses
What makes you angry? Seriously. What does it take to get you riled up these days? Yes, I'm talking to you. Does the ...
Prophet’s Daughter: It Happened Like She Said
Over on Amazon, John "Flammo" took up my challenge to get specific about his statements of "inaccuracies" in my sister's recent book Prophet's Daughter. ...
Prophet’s Daughter Response: Parade of Empty Ad Hominems
It's been an interesting couple of days over on the Amazon site. Prophet's Daughter has gotten up into the low 2,000's ranking overall, ...
Prophet’s Daughter: A Gripping Cautionary Tale
I have posted the following five-star review of Prophet's Daughter on Amazon. There is so much more I have to say about my ...
Proof-Burden Shifting
Boiled down, ninety-nine percent of religious apologetics (and for that matter, new-age and psychic apologetics) consists of shifting the burden of proof. This comes up so often that it ...
California Prop. 8: Christian Privilege vs. Human Rights
Nothing is more basic to human liberty than the ability to designate one's choice of a partner to be recognized under the law. Nothing ...
No Good Government Says Anything About God’s Presence
It's official, we have another bat-shit crazy lunatic in the U.S. Congress, who seems to have forgotten not only common sense, but the very constitution he's sworn to uphold. This ...