This question is primarily to the agnostics, skeptics, secular humanists and atheists out there:
Are there good things that we can learn from religion?  Are there practices, principles, or even ways of knowing that religion can teach us?  If there are, can we absorb these without buying into superstition or validating those elements we find problematic?

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My cousin is in town, so I went to my sister’s for the Superbowl (by the way, this is me. I love playing many sports but I really do not understand, nor do I care to, American football). I was told by the TV about halfway through that the entire contents of the show was […]

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Johnny now has his commentary of chapter three of Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus up at The Fire Sermon.
Bored in Vernal alerted me to the following LDS discussions of the book:
Jeff analyzes, from an LDS perspective, Ehrman’s assertion that later scribes added Jesus’ bloody sweat to Luke’s narrative.
Dave reviews the entire book, chapter by chapter.
She also […]

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