Tag: God

God is separately backing at least three different contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, sending signs and direct messages to each of these candidates encouraging them to run, presumably without telling them that he supports other candidates as well.

I’ve never run for public office, but I know exactly what I would need to do to get the votes of people too ignorant to base their judgment on any real, substantial issues.

I’d just tell them that God told me to run for office. He spoke to me. In a dream. Really.

Recently psychologists doing research on the minds of infants have discovered two related facts that may account for the similarities between religions. One: human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena. And two: this predisposition is an incidental by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry. Which leads to the question…

“All science teachers, whatever their specialism, have to deal with questions about God. We should be prepared”

In an essay written in 1890, Ingersoll discusses the purposeful absence of God in the Constitution.

According to a new study, prosperity is highest in countries that practice religion the least.

Over the years I’ve found that ill-tempered guardians of scientific truth can’t abide speculative thinking. And as the renowned Richard Dawkins has proved, they are also very annoyed by a nuisance named God.

David Hamilton, Barack Obama’s first judicial nominee, has seen his confirmation stalled until last week in the U.S. Senate, in part because his opponents claim he’s a judicial activist for an opinion he wrote about God’s proper secular title. In a 2005 case, Hinrichs v. Bosma, Hamilton determined that those who pray in the Indiana House of Representatives “should refrain from using Christ’s name or title or any other denominational appeal,” and that such prayer must hereinafter be “nonsectarian.”

The moment evidence is provided, we will be happy to accept it and to change our minds accordingly. This is not the fluffy open-mindedness of the ‘spiritual’, the ‘New Age’, or the ‘seeker’. This is not an open-mindedness that says, ‘I can imagine it, therefore it must be possible’. This is genuine, healthy open-mindedness: a mind that is open, but judiciously so, as opposed to a yawning chasm that has no filter for sifting out the genuine from the phony, the rational from the irrational, the true from the false.

In a comic vein, Tarico suggests a playlist for ex-Christians.

An obituary of God published in The Economist’s millennium issue.

Kris Hartung argues that atheists should abandon talk of God all together and take a different approach. He argues the talk of God legitimizes the concept further and creates an “either or” scenario that is hurting the chances of progress.

President Barack Obama has chosen influential genetic scientist Francis Collins to head the National Institutes of Health. Known for helping to unravel the human genetic codes, he is also known for trying to find common ground between belief in God and science and is author of the 2007 best-seller The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.

Both Bible-bashing fundamentalists and dogmatic atheists have a similar idea of what “God” means, she points out, and it is an absurdly crude one.

A harsh critique of god from a master of the written word and fellow atheist.

Harvard Professor Steven Pinker uses the tools of evolutionary psychology to find the origins of humans’ tendency to believe in religions.

Some will recognize the many “one-liners” pulled from this text.  While this is not the full essay, I believe it to be the full chapter titled “The World As I See It”.

Richard Dawkins interviews Daniel Dennett for BBC TV series “The Genius of Charles Darwin”

Chris Wood delivers a ballad of unbelief.

People use the same word - God - to convey very different ideas: creator, moral guide, personal relationship and impersonal force. Michael Nugent, chair of Atheist Ireland, debates this at University College Cork.