The Pokey Finger of God

At first, I could never understand the True Believers.
My first encounters with them was in Christian churches. My own, initially pedantic, attempts at Bible study repeatedly failed to illuminate the motivations or goals of True Believers. I could never understand just what was so exciting in the faith as I had ever seen it practiced.
Atheists [...]

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– from Chris Hedges of Free Press on Alternet
Many of these atheists, like the Christian fundamentalists, support the imperialist projects and preemptive wars of the United States as a necessity in the battle against terrorism and irrational religion. They divide the world into superior and inferior races, those who are enlightened by reason and [...]

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Atheism frustrates me.
There are many gods I don’t personally believe in. Among others, there are: Perfect Universal Good, Old Man in the Sky, Angry and Jealous Guy, and the Omniscient Moralizing Dude. It just so happens that these are the ones that the Christians sell by the bushel. I have a hard time understanding why [...]

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As the hyper-rationalists like Dawkins are on the rise and old-school moralists like Robertson and Falwell are draining away, I find myself, unable to embrace either position, hoping for the mutual destruction of each in some dramatic, dying battle.
Selfish Gene was a mind-blowing read, and it allowed me a perspective that has significantly colored my [...]

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Religion is a foul bane to the ultra-rational, and lo, how it grinds their nerves to witness otherwise normal humans submit to fantasy. I’ve read many attempts to convince the faithful of their irrational error, and have noticed that people continue to go to churches and temples. Sam Harris is very entertaining in this interview [...]

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