Matt Taibbi’s article “
Jesus Made Me Puke” about his experience going undercover at an evangelical Christian religious retreat demonstrates another deep flaw in the philosophy of Skepticism — its deeply incurious streak. The one that seeks to debunk rather than discover answers.

The previous half hour or so I’d spent dawdling in my car outside [...] Read more »

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In the comments thread of a long-ago post, Samuel Skinner writes:

And remember fundamentalism used to be the norm. It wasn’t until recently that people started reading their bibles more figuratively.

Whether or not that’s true is doubtful. After all, it was called “fundamentalism” by those who felt that religion had to return to the Bible-believin’ basics. [...] Read more »

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Ali, normally a deep and cautious thinker when it comes to religious and spiritual issues,
blows her top over scientific atheism.

Hell, they’re still teaching elementary schoolers that atoms look like a group of sticky beach balls orbited by dustspecks, and then you get to high school chemistry class and find out it’s all about [...] Read more »

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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 [...] Read more »

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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 [...] Read more »

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