Deir el Bahri. Queen Hatsepshut’s Temple (1473-1458 BC) Luxor, Egypt. I’ve never had a passport. Hope to be able to put one to use someday. This place was on the Continue Reading →
No, not THAT Bruno, this Bruno: Giordano Bruno. Religion has been in the business of misinformation even killing information for millenia now, mainly by threatening, torturing, and/or killing those who Continue Reading →
“The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society and the Birth of the Modern World” by Edward Dolnick. I love this book at a dozen levels, I’ll just relay a Continue Reading →
The first “enlightenment” image is entitled “Gathering Wisdom” and the second “Beyond Belief” conveys the opposite and modern era sense of the word “enlightenment“. In the first, meditating, stopping thoughts, Continue Reading →
When I posted the recent essay which included the video of Dan Savage on Bill Maher’s show (see here) offhandedly mentioning he would keep “inseminating his husband” in the hopes Continue Reading →
Let’s get something straight. I’ve never called any Xian stupid. Xian leaders who promote the delusions, homophobia, and science denial, and know exactly what they are doing like my buddies Continue Reading →
Ideologies put ideas first, reality second, and human rights may not even make the list. Science on the other hand puts reality first, human rights next and ideas… last. Your Continue Reading →
I’ve repeated it for years. So have many of us, and even evidently the scholars: If the stories of Jesus in the NT are increasingly embellished contradictory legends mostly found Continue Reading →
I had a similar comment made almost offhandedly to me on FB: “… enjoy your Christmas, however or whatever you non-believers do…” It was made by a very nice Xian Continue Reading →
