Doubting Your Doubts
I am always sad when people give up on religion at the same time they stop believing in God. Atheists have not lost their reverence for life, only in one symbol of that reverence. They are still...
View Article“Hosana” is born in the furnace of doubt
“My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky It is a serious mistake to think that faith is holding onto the beliefs we were taught by the church. Memorizing phrases produces trance,...
View ArticleOn the question, “does God exist?”
It seems to me that the question of God’s existence or nonexistence is vacuous. One person answers the question “yes,” the other person answers “no.” Neither has the slightest idea what the other means...
View ArticleMy problem with the word “atheism”
Susan Jacoby has an article in the New York Times called “The Blessings of Atheism” lamenting the unfair perception that atheists believe nothing. This widespread misapprehension that atheists believe...
View ArticleThe Question
As I have gotten older I have not lost the ability to ask life’s great questions, but those questions have gotten fewer and deeper. At this point of my life, if I want to discern the fulcrum of another...
View ArticleTHE QUOTABLE ATHEIST (PART 1)
THE QUOTABLE ATHEIST (PART 1) INTRO I love quotation books. I like to keep them by my bed in case I can’t sleep. A few years ago I was working through a book called “The Quotable Atheist” by Jack...
View ArticleApostles’ Creed for Everyone
Apostles’ Creed for Everyone (A translation by Jim Rigby) Every religion is a particular expression of the universal human experience. The original word for “creed” in Greek meant “symbol.” When...
View ArticleTruth
When Jesus spoke of “truth” I do not believe he could have been referring to the Bible nor to the creeds of the church because these had yet to be written. I believe that Jesus, like the Buddha, was...
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