If what you do doesn’t appear to make a difference then perhaps it doesn’t.
Age of Reason
If what you do doesn’t appear to make a difference then perhaps it doesn’t.
Is it alright to have prayer in schools? What if it was used as a tool to teach children about other religions?
Is this an accurate description of the beliefs of today’s Christians?
Reason to me, is the defining characteristic of being human. Reason is a tool of the enlightened. Not simply the learned who see what others have done and go their way. The enlightened reasoner constantly learns and will never deal in absolutes or mysticism. The reasoner will not belittle, hate, or commit violence. A reasoner is always able to doubt or disbelieve. A reasoner will concede in an argument when they are compelled by logic and truth. Let reason prevail. Let truth triumph.
“What most atheists do believe is that although there is only one kind of stuff in the universe, and it is physical, out of this stuff come minds, beauty, emotions, moral values—in short the full gamut of phenomena that gives richness to human life.” ~Julian Baggini in Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
“Is your god really God?
Is my god really God?
I think our god isn’t God,
If he fits inside our heads.”
- Come Now Sleep, As Cities Burn, “Clouds”
“…does the thought haunt your head
That you’re really, rather small?
If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all”
- Beggars, Thrice, “Beggars”
To me, reason is about what’s true. To me, reason is about what’s real. To me, reason is about what it is to be human. To me, reason is about what it means to love. To me, reason is about what it means not to hate. To me, reason is about what it means to be free. To me, reason is about the whole world, coming together, in solidarity, for the common good. To me, reason is the ony way. AATS
Even though most Christians do not often use the Bible to justify owning slaves or having racist beliefs they do often use it to be justify being prejudiced towards homosexuals. These same beliefs we will put down as ridiculous when taken from the KKK or Nazis but whenever it’s from religious texts we have respect for them, why?
Julia Sweeney on Letting Go of God
The Intelligence² Debate - Stephen Fry (Unedited)
By Shareascare
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“When my husband died, because he was so famous & known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me — it still sometimes happens — & ask me if Carl changed at the end & converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage & never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don’t ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief & precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive & we were together was miraculous — not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance… That pure chance could be so generous & so kind… That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space & the immensity of time… That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me & it’s much more meaningful…
The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don’t think I’ll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.“
- Ann Druyan, talking about her husband, Carl Sagan
Yes, I am Good Without God
