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POPSOld Obama Interview "...in my own public policy, I'm very suspicious of religious certainty expressing itself in politics....that's different form a belief that values have to inform our public policy. I think it's perfectly consistent to say that I want my government to be operating for all faiths and all peoples, including atheists and agnostics, while also insisting that there are values that inform my politics that are appropriate to talk about."
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POPSReligion in the US: Abortion and Evolutuion Pro-choice and pro-evolution persons hold a slim majority in the US, which probably is no surprise to keen observers of US culture. They have long known that pro-lifers aren't much for evolving as well.
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POPS A word for nonbelievers Very social creatures, we humans. I suppose you develop the siege mentality when you happily rearrange your world and chop out a huge slice of your upbringing. This group would help people like me, if I hadn't had 40 years to work it out.
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POPSAtheists aren't skeptical enough and... ...the best skeptics are actually theists. The agnostics ski down the mountain into the woods, searching for hard evidence on the basis of which to decide whether God exists—which is very odd, given that a moment ago they were standing here with us, ready to climb as declared skeptics. Agnostics, plainly, are wafflers in their skepticism: As the team gets going, they U-turn back to the foothills, where every true skeptic says there is nothing to find. They do not care about the truth. But even more astonishing than that, the atheists have just gone home. They are not down in the valley looking for evidence; they are not looking at all. They have packed in the science without lifting a boot, as if the summit were already taken, the question answered.
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POPSthe top 10 least religious countries The survey concluded that "high levels of organic atheism are strongly correlated with high levels of societal health, such as low homicide rates, low poverty rates, low infant mortality rates, and low illiteracy rates, as well as high levels of educational attainment, per capita income, and gender equality. In some societies, particularly Europe, atheism is growing. However, throughout much of the world -- particularly nations with high birth rates -- atheism is barely discernable."
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POPSQuestions for Mitt Romney. Are there other positions that you believe atheists are not qualified to hold. For example, can an atheist be a good governor? Senator? Teacher? Parent? What is the limit to what an atheist is qualified to do? If you had a daughter, and her boyfriend – let us say, a black man – asked for permission to marry your daughter – what would you say? What if he was an atheist? The best one can hope for here is that Romney will do a better job of recognizing the bigotry of his statements than the audience he is trying to impress and be put in the uncomfortable position of trying to give an answer that is not blatantly bigoted without losing a substantial portion of his blatantly bigoted base.
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POPSAtheists Don't Deserve Freedom And as Joan Walsh added: But I wasn't reassured, I was alarmed. Romney blasted "the new religion of secularism," referring to those who continue to argue for strict separation of church and state, which apparently, like certain of the Geneva Conventions under the Bush administration, is becoming "quaint." I sometimes find the anti-God stridency of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens grating. Listening to Romney's speech I realized what a necessary corrective it is to corrosive political pandering. Calling secularism "religion" is a cheap shot worthy of Bill O'Reilly, not a major presidential candidate. I can't help hoping Romney's speech fails to soothe religious conservatives, because the sooner the Republican Party faces up to the destructive cost of its electoral dependence on religious extremists, the better off our country will be.
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POPSFFRF puts up first ever Nontheistic Billboard Man would those cause a stink in my home town! When the only Sex store opened up here the entire city went on red alert. Lawfully they couldn't stop it, but they did modify the laws and zoning so that no other Sex store could open. Meanwhile Cash Advance, churches, and homeopathy drug stores abound!
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POPSMythology and Globalism Although many could find something offensive in this novel, which pokes fun at the commercialization of religion, they will find it impossible not to laugh.
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POPSTO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE SHOULD BE THE QUESTION.
The phrase "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, This verse sums up the debate over RELIGION, GOD, AND THE POLITICS OF RELIGION to a T... To a T to me anyway... I believe (yes I do) the whole debate is anchored in the fear of dying or the fear of not existing but whether you believe or not believe, CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG? To be or not to be, that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life, MORE AT: ht
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POPSAtheism Explained This is a lucid explanation of what an atheist is and what an atheist is not. It's a good summation and answers some of the basic questions that are often brought up in regards to atheism. Link to the original (it's not too long) for a good introduction.
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