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    Unbelief Now World's Third Largest Religious Affiliation

    If you can call it religious... :rolleyes: From the Washington Post: A new report on global religious identity shows that while Christians and Muslims make up the two largest groups, those with no religious affiliation — including atheists and agnostics — are now the third-largest...
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    Toxic Atheism Threatens Life on Earth, yadda yadda yadda

    Salon magazine is slowly thurning into Reader's Digest, the way it publishes these hysterical broadsides against atheism. This time philosophical juggernaut Chris Steadman claims Toxic Atheism Drives People Apart, as a preview of his self-congratulatory screed Faitheist: How an Atheist Found...
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    Atheism Plus

    Atheism + has arrived, and this is its manifesto: According to Richard Carrier at freethoughtblogs: " Do you identify as an atheist? Then I can’t insist, but I do ask that you to defend these goals and values (not in comments here, but publicly, via Facebook or other social media): are you...
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    Do We Need To Be "Rethinking Heaven"?

    TIME Magazine seems to think so. The basic problem I see is that simply giving an ancient superstition a New Age makeover doesn't make the concept of Heaven any more meaningful or internally coherent. It simply whitewashes the ethical dilemma of believing in a reward or punishment (even if...
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    Religion as Literature

    As a fan of the Iliad and world mythology, I can't approach religion as anything more than literary constructs. I'm currently reading Finnegans Wake, in which Joyce rewrites ancient and Christian mythology as philosophical slapstick, the comedy of eras. It's a wild ride. Would anyone else...
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    Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

    It's been my lifelong wish to read Finnegans Wake, so I've been plowing through Joyce's masterpiece with the help of Roland McHugh's book of annotations. I'm halfway through Book III so far, and I've had a ball with the novel's puns, songs, jokes, myths, riddles, and puzzles. Seems like just...
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    Sam Harris Defines Faith

    It may not be clear to anyone who hasn't read the book, but Harris isn't saying that people of faith are unreasonable or uncivil. The point is that since they feel that religious claims are exempt from the same criticism we level against any other claim made in public, they're creating a...
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    Discrimination in the Catholic Church

    In this discussion, JacobEzra recommended I start a new thread to discuss whether exclusion from Catholic rites constitutes discrimination: If we consider it discrimination to withhold privileges from people on an arbitrary basis like gender, wouldn't the Catholic Church's position on gay...
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    Do We Know More Than the Authors of the Bible?

    (I didn't want to derail the discussion this came from, so I thought I'd start a new thread. We had hit upon Bishop John Shelby Spong's anti-literalist approach to Scripture, which Matthew78 called "meaningless, if not outright silly." I asserted that it was silly to expect Bronze Age people to...
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    Hello There

    Greetings to all! I'm a bored cube-monkey in Boston, father of two, and an aspiring author. I'm a nonbeliever who's fascinated with religion as literature and mythology, but disturbed by contemporary belief's incursions into the realms of politics, science, education, and sexuality. Hope we...
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