Posts from This Journal by “religion” Tag

• QotD: Looking for a Black Cat in a Dark Room

  Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that…

• QotD: Don't Try to Answer Unanswerable Questions

  To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: This skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. — Ursula…

• QotD: Religion Makes People Vulnerable to Manipulation

  "...growing up in church desensitizes you to logical inconsistencies, and that opens up large numbers of people to manipulation tactics…

• Blazak on the Role of Religion in Hate Crimes in the US

  Randy Blazak is a PhD from Emory University with a specialty in hate crimes. Specifically he studied racist skinheads (he doesn't say just…

• QotD: Joseph Campbell on Cultural Collision

  There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of…

• QotD: Choice and Responsibility--and Default

  I have often said "it's a free will universe" as a basis for extolling choice as a power, whether conscious or unconscious, for determining your…

• QotD: Uncertain Fanatics

  You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They…

• QotD: Meat

  If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat? --found attributed to Sarah Palin but have been informed that John…

• QotD: Enlightened Deep Down

  It’s fantastic to look at people and see that they really, deep down, are enlightened. They’re It. They’re faces of the divine. And they look at…