Sharing superstitions with others... Defining truth by the number of believers.
We did. Concepts of hell arose from the most terrifying experiences our ancestors were capable of fathoming. Those concepts, like all other ideas humans came up with can always be traced to some elements within the human experience.
The idea...
Though religion may be many things to many people, one of them is not "harmless" especially when it comes to children. Though many are mystified by why non-theists go out of their way to convince the faithful their religions...
Though each new generation is tasked with evaluating their parents beliefs and understandings, no generation has ever had the internet to assist them in this task. Never before have so many old ideas been exposed to so many new...
It is very difficult from the perspective of looking out from within to see ourselves for who and what we really are. What makes this even harder is the fact that our brains are limited by perception constraints that...
There is a big difference between using our intelligence to fathom reasons we have to be optimistic about life on one side, and attempting to derive a positive outlook from faith in stories or myths with little or no...
Arguments of harm reduction... e.g. why intervene if ignorance is bliss? Obligation to challenge ignorance due to the chance it will overtake rationalism if left unchecked. Ignorance has the power to take us backwards into darker times... Is religion...
The truth will set you free.
Spirituality is the part of the human psyche that connects our imaginations to suppositions about the world around us. Such suppositions can be legitimate attempts to fill in unknown puzzle pieces with ideas that might fit provided those ideas...
Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us...
