Posted in Religion on February 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’ve been very careful in selecting the title to this piece. “This Week in God”® is the property of The Daily Show, of which I’m a great fan, and it’s my favorite regular segment.
The problem is that the antics of religious believers are so varied and numerous that an approximately-weekly TV segment […]
Posted in General, Religion on February 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
“The Creator is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.”
H.L. Mencken
Good drugs
If, as I have indicated elsewhere, religious experience is all in the brain, then it can be self-induced and -maintained, just as with any other mental state, such as meditation or artistic performance. To a secular humanist, feeling good by thinking about […]
Posted in Religion, Language & Linguistics on February 21st, 2007 No Comments »
“There are scores of human insects who are ready at a moment’s notice to reveal the will of God on any possible subject.”
George Bernard Shaw
Comic/magic masters Penn and Teller say it right out – bullshit. In fact, it’s the title of their TV show. They’re hard-core skeptics, secular humanists, and libertarians. My […]
Posted in Religion on February 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
The broadcast referred to below is available at http://richarddawkins.net/article,621,Panel-discussion-on-atheism-where-no-atheists-are-included,CNN
TO: Paula Zahn/CNN
From: Alan Perlman, PhD
Author, An Atheist Reads the Torah: Secular Humanistic Perspectives on the Five Books of Moses
www.thejewishatheist.com
Reginald Finley
www.theinfidelguy.com
We were appalled and frightened by the vicious anti-secular propaganda of your January 31 broadcast, in which you exhibited such rank discrimination as to include […]
Posted in Religion on February 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
Over the years, I’ve done a lot of reading about the future — philosophy, futurism, trend-spotters, and psychics. At this point, the person who seems to have the best insight is Forrest Gump’s mom, with her famous observation that life is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re going to […]
Posted in Religion, Islam on February 2nd, 2007 3 Comments »
“How terrible to watch a man who has the incomprehensible within his grasp, doesn’t know what to do, and sits down playing with a toy called God.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This is, I regret to say, the first of a number of entries which record the religious atrocity of the day.
January 31 was a holy day in Iraq, […]