We have come from everything has a spirit, to polytheism, to monotheism. The atheists say just one more God to go. In truth I liked animism (the first...
We have minorities that are offended by Halloween, some offended by Christmas. I've been corrected so many times for saying "Merry Christmas", I switc...
Well this kind of dogmatism is part of the problem with religion (in many ways especially Christianity). In any event I, like Thomas Jefferson, admire...
Well we will see what happens, but it is another one of these issues around which there is not great consensus and the views in the South are differen...
I think the most convincing data is the long term data from ice cores, correlating temperature, CO2 levels and other measures over geological time. Of...
Your perceived world is created by the interaction of your mind with the external world. Your perceived world is not the "world as it is" but rather a...
Well yes, forever is a long time and change is the one inevitable feature of reality. There is the Acropolis in Greece and the Forum in Rome, both hav...
Well when it comes to religious conceptions, I think everyone is entitled to their own (assuming they are not persecuting or otherwise harming others ...
I can see you are losing patience. I am sorry you feel that way. Just so you can see the extent of the problem. I am done now. https://en.wikipedia.or...
It seems to me there are many conceptions of God. In saying "I don't believe in God" one must have some concept or the other in mind. In saying "I do ...
You know if it was put to a vote and the majority voted to remove the statues, then I would not have a problem. That is not what has happened. Instead...
It does sound a lot like the immovable object and the unstoppable force problem. The object which cannot be known (or infinity, a useful mathematical ...
The gettysburg battlefield where Lincoln spoke those words is filled with statues and monuments of both the south and the north. Once you begin this s...
I was familiar with that article in the Atlantic before I wrote the post. I guess the point is, close scrutiny of almost any historical figure will re...
I don't think we should go around extracting historical figures from their time and place and judging them by our contemporary moral and ethical stand...
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