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(as recent a photo as I got. But a few months old, speaking, talking with my hands as usual, wanting to convey information as usual as well…it is what separates Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Religion
My Worst Nightmare
By 2050, according to estimates derived from the 2008 census, there will be just under 90 million people 65 and older in the US, comprising about 20% of the population. Continue Reading →
Big “G” or Little “g” that is the question
Myself, and Tom Cara from the Chicago Chapter of the Freedom from Religion Foundation at the Secular Coalition for America (SCA) booth at the McHenry County Fair, Woodstock, IL on Continue Reading →
Mindfulness, Meditation, and Neuroscience: “Buddha’s Brain”
A short book review of the above. (13 chapters plus appendix, 234 pages, 196 references). From the Forward: “The authors have woven together Buddhist practices developed over two thousand years Continue Reading →
On Science Denial, Where Does it Come From?
Just where does science denial come from? You guessed it: Religion. Name me one secular organization that denies climate change. Name me one secular organization that upholds old, pre-scientific, ideas Continue Reading →
Conservatives: Slow to come around, always lose in the end
Despite the incredible push from Trump and his conservative religious cabinet and advisors: Bannon, DeVos, Sessions, Pruitt, Price, there is so much progress to report on so many fronts that Continue Reading →
Fake News, Confabulation, and the Worst of What East and West have to Offer
This is an essay without links to references. OK, I lied. There is one, and its about Trump’s most current list of lies. Well, actually there’s 3. There, I lied Continue Reading →
The Existence of the Soul: Cultural Inertia from Religious Thought
Brian Cox. Physicist and science educator Brian Cox stuck his neck out, quite on purpose I think, and made the claim that experiments done at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Continue Reading →
On Cultural Inertia: Religion just must be good…
“Intellectual Honesty and Islam,” was the title of Sarah Haider’s talk at Seth Andrews’ Thinking Atheist 300 podcast party on the Regressive Left and Islam, Nov 19th 2016. Take 15 Continue Reading →
MEMES: Religion’s Absurdity
It has been a long while…maybe a year, possibly two, since I did a predominantly visual, image or meme filled post. And the muse struck me, so: May I have Continue Reading →