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Spark: Training

July 22nd, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments

I’m sorry for all the sparks recently, but I couldn’t resist this one. Enjoy!

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Tags: Art · Atheism · Belief · Bible · Christianity · Comics · Creativity. · Fiction · Getting over Religion · Gods · Humor · Pop Culture · Religion · Satire · Skeptic · Spiritual Progressives · Spirituality · Undead

I don’t want to F the Ineffable.

July 6th, 2008 · by John · 12 Comments

I did some bad things during my stint as a Mormon missionary in Japan.  I’d like to repent of one of them right now.
Some of my Japanese friends confided deep, personal spiritual experiences with me.  In several cases I coopted their experiences for my own ends, and using my words, contorted them so that they […]

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Tags: Atheism · Belief · Getting over Religion · Gods · Humanism · Mormonism · Musings · Mysticism · Personal · Reason · Spirituality

Spark: Reflections on your beliefs

June 11th, 2008 · by xJane · 2 Comments

I checked out this survey on a prompt from Pharyngula. I recommend that you do the same. We may indeed be giving the creator of the survey food for thought, but what I found was that it was a good, concrete way to think about my own beliefs, hang-ups, and tendencies. I think it’s a […]

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Science Fiction & Religion

May 20th, 2008 · by xJane · 2 Comments

By now, many of you will have heard that one of the Vatican’s astronomers has indicated that there might be life on other planets. Even that they might be without sin. Many of my favorite science fiction books involve the intersection of religion and space travel (Dune and Ender’s Game chief among them). But really, […]

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Einstein: Religions are “childish superstition”

May 14th, 2008 · by Zach · 7 Comments

(It’s that time again – guest post from Zach time.)

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Lots of people are talking about a newly-surfaced letter by Einstein, which seems to clarify his ambiguous views on religion with the following strongly-worded statements:
The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a […]

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Was anyone watching these rights…?

April 16th, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment

The Interfaith Alliance is keeping tabs on the race for Pastor in Chief of the United States of America and sums up the top ten creeptastic moments that remind us that, and I quote,
no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States
Good thing we […]

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Tags: Activism · Atheism · Belief · Bible · Christianity · Church and State · Current Events · Dialog · Doubt · Ethics · Gods

We’ve Started Something

February 16th, 2008 · by xJane · 5 Comments

First, there was John’s dabbling in mapping lolCats onto traditional religious images. Then, the folks over at Cracked gave us some awesome lolReligion interspersed in their 10 Things Christians and Atheists Can Agree On (scroll down for the lolDog in need of a Catholic exorcism). But it didn’t stop there, oh no! Someone linked John […]

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Why Christianity is a Polytheistic Religion

January 17th, 2008 · by John · 9 Comments

And I’m not even going to touch the Holy Trinity.
Christianity is broad enough to encompass different gods, including the following:

A distant god who took the cosmic equivalent of an extended coffee break while leaving the Bunsen burners going under his/her grand experiment.
A big cheery Santa Claus of a god who has an army of elves […]

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