The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. –Bertrand Russell While trying to come up with something to write about today, I visited a quote site where I found the quote above. The first thing that popped into my mind was that of religion. Wars [...]
Category Archive for 'Religion'
Three Types of Religious Skeptics
Posted in Culture, Life, Religion, Social Issues, opinion on Nov 25th, 2009
I’ve often considered what attracts different people to religion and what purposes religion has served in society. Recently, I’ve been thinking of the converse: what makes people reject religion and the different reasons why people are either atheists or agnostics. I think there are several reasons, often depending on each particular person’s personality and outlook [...]
It seems as if I have a homing device to attract the religious of all stripes. I don’t know what it is; perhaps it’s my air of disrepute that attracts them like moths to a flame. Recently, they hired a new guy at my place of employment, a squeaky-clean, straight arrow kind of person. I [...]
Faulty Logic
Posted in Libertine, Life, Religion, Social Issues, opinion on Sep 27th, 2009
The other night I was changing stations while listening to the radio in the car. I happened upon a station where they were talking about a survey of Americans who had been married at least once and it said that out of that groups, 76% had been married only once, 20% had been married twice, [...]
Hypocrisy: The True Amorality
Posted in Culture, Libertine, Politics, Religion, Social Issues, opinion, sex on Jul 19th, 2009
While idly browsing the net today, I came upon a most interesting post that expressed similar ideas to my own about the recent flurry of public moral hypocrisy we’ve seen lately on the news. What caught my interest about this post was that it came from the other side of the aisle from my own [...]
Hypocrisy and Human Nature
Posted in Culture, Life, Religion, Social Issues, history, opinion, sex on Jul 11th, 2009
With all the recent outings of politicians engaged in extramarital sex, my favorite liberal news site, Alternet, has been doing a flurry of articles relating to this subject. In a recent article, Relax: Adultery Is Not That Big Of a Deal by Samara O’Shea, she explores the idea: I’m not justifying infidelity. But it [...]
As my regular readers know, I often listen to radio broadcasts of those with whom I disagree, searching for ranty blogging fodder. The other night, while monitoring a Focus on the Family broadcast, they had a couple on the show who had recently lost one of their young children. The mother went on about she [...]
In my book, there’s something seriously wrong with a church that would protect priests who molest children, but would immediately seek to excommunicate a priest who supports the ordination of female priests. Nearly 5,000 Catholic priests in the U.S. have sexually abused over 12,000 Catholic children. The usual response from the Catholic heirarchy is not [...]
Marriage and Children
Posted in Culture, Politics, Religion, Social Issues on Apr 7th, 2009
Many people who oppose same-sex marriage base their opposition on their belief that the purpose of marriage is to provide a legal structure in which to raise children, preferably of their own biological origin. But I believe that issues concerning children and those concerning marriage should be viewed as separately for a couple of reasons. [...]
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