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Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But... →
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others... →
Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and... →
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has... →
My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to... →
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance.... →
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never... →
While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and... →
To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves... →
Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it... →
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to... →
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends... →
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