Tag: atheism
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#MorningMonarchy: August 25, 2016
Ditching God, de-radicalization and a sex-fueled cult + this day in history w/Confrontation Day and our song of the day by Kula Shaker on your Morning Monarchy for August 25, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 28, 2016
More Manson, less religion and May Day Beltane + this day in history w/Port Arthur massacre and our song of the day by Brett Dennen on your Morning Monarchy for April 28, 2016.
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Disco and the End of Atheism
from americanvision.org: Atheism seems to be on the rise. A number of young people are taking to it like they did to disco in the 1970s. But alas, like all trends, it met its end on Disco Demolition Night July 12, 1979 at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, where a crate filled with records was…
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Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists
from preposterousuniverse.com: One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the claim is made that that belief in the success of science in describing the workings of the world is no longer thought to be in conflict with faith in God. I…
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Is Atheism Irrational?
from bigquestionsonline.com: We know well atheistic attempts to explain religion away. Marx, for example, claims that religion is the opiate of the people. Religion, Nietzsche contends, is weakness lying itself into power. According to Freud religion is a defensive illusion created in the face of “the crushingly superior force of nature.” As influential as these…
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God Endures, Even As Religion Wanes
from Futurity.org: “Americans’ attitudes toward religion are growing more complex,” says study author Tom Smith. “While fewer people identify with a particular religion, belief in God remains high.” In the United States, belief in God has ebbed over time from about 99 percent in the 1950s to about 92 percent at present. Certitude about God…
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In Defence of Theology
from bernardokastrup.com: Theology has been the subject of much bashing by neo-atheists over the past several years. A fresh blog post by Jerry Coyne today seems to encapsulate the essence of their grievance: theology is claimed to be a discipline with no subject of study. Correctly defining theology as “the study or science which treats of God, His…
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The Pillars of Unbelief – Jean-Paul Sartre
from catholiceducation.org: Jean-Paul Sartre may be the most famous atheist of the 20th century. As such, he qualifies for anyone’s short list of “pillars of unbelief.” Yet he may have done more to drive fence-sitters toward the faith than most Christian apologists. For Sartre has made atheism such a demanding, almost unendurable, experience that…