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Comment on Some thoughts from Alan Watts by Tim Mills

Tim Mills — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:59:54 +0000

Wonderful. Thanks, Clare!

Comment on Tomorrow, In a Year by Clare

Clare — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:11:32 +0000

Yup. Born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden but his family are from Argentina originally.

Comment on Tomorrow, In a Year by grammarking

grammarking — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:41:01 +0000

Wait, Jose Gonzalez is a Swede?

Comment on The Ages of Your Atheism by metatim

metatim — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:47:26 +0000

I don’t recall my own journey with much precision at all. I do remember deciding I was agnostic in the early teenage years, and then gradually shifting more and more towards the atheist end of the spectrum over the past decade and a half.

The final decisive shift ocurred when I read one of Douglas Adams’ essays in “The Salmon of Doubt” a few years ago, which I highly recommend.

Comment on Religulous by JM

JM — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:29:34 +0000

True, you have a point that the non-believers should strive for tolerance and dialogue with people of different beliefs.

However, we do need to show (as a society) intolerance for the intolerant – right?

On the one hand, we the non-believers must exhibit compassion and understanding. But we must also be quick and not bashful about pointing out the many harms of the strict ideological stances embraced by religions.

I think Maher does a decent job of being confrontational without being an intellectual bully. The guy is a comedian after all.

Comment on The Standing Conference on Religion and Belief by berenike

berenike — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:28:04 +0000

I like sharing books:-)

Comment on The Standing Conference on Religion and Belief by Clare

Clare — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:11:08 +0000

That looks quite interesting. Thanks for the tip!

Comment on The Standing Conference on Religion and Belief by berenike

berenike — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:56:33 +0000

You might find Ratzinger’s Faith, Truth and Tolerance interesting. I enjoyed both the content, and his admirable writing – one of those who takes someone’s argument, strengthens it, gives it every possible help, and only then deals with it. This post, and some others, brought to mind a section where he discusses the opinions of a Hindu politician (I seem to remember the chap was a politician, but it’s been about five years since I read the book). FWIW.

Comment on Religulous by Clare

Clare — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:02:45 +0000

True. I think I still would have liked to have heard a bit more about it though. I wonder was it just that one issue or was the father unconvinced by other aspects too?

Comment on Religulous by Susie

Susie — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:15:44 +0000

they did discuss why they stopped going to church. his mother was using birth control and the catholic church is very opposed to such a thing