In the midst of discussing Marx, Vonnegut, and religion, “Sacred Slut” of the blog “Whore in the Temple of Reason” (potentially NSFW, I’m sure that’s a shock) says this:

But is there still a real need for religion for most people nowadays? I wonder about this a lot. While most Christians imagine that atheists reject [...]

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Two things.
First of all, it’s entirely possible to belong to a community of people and yet disagree, strongly, with some of the positions they may take. This is particularly true of churches which often resemble family groups rather than narrow political parties. The church I attended most frequently was pastored by a
PromiseKeeper, but the [...]

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I hadn’t heard of John Hagee until he endorsed John McCain. But
GLS is right. He’s an important member of the Christian Right and represents an enormous voting bloc. For McCain, who’s struggling to get the support of the religious fundamentalists he once called dangerous, Hagee’s endorsement is a really big deal. And worthy of [...]

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I followed an amazing chain of links to get to
this lecture by I-don’t-want-to-call-him-atheist Sam Harris. I’m linking to it here primarily as a bookmark for later review, because there’s a lot going on. But he seems to have latched on to much of what I’ve been writing about the problems of atheism and where [...]

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TBogg reports about another case of “they banned Christmas!” turning out to be, well, not so true. Conservative writer Mark Tapscott backs off the charge a bit, but insists that:

…it’s clearsomebody at SWOSU got the idea that employees there should be told to stop using such terms as “Christmas” and “Christ.” I have no [...]

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