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I am going to post some really general information on religions from a more academic perspective. Keep in mind, it has been quite a few years (a little more than a decade) since I have really studied this and related topics, so I will try to keep this pretty general. I will also pull ideas from my previous posts on the topic of religion too, as well as some of my other related unpublished works.
Continue Readingpublished: May 2016 This post will be a sort of a part of a 2-part follow-up to my post on Understanding and Managing Jealousy: If you have not read the other two articles then please take a look. Introduction Jealousy, that horrible Green-Eyed Monster that can tear apart relationships, can rear its ugly head enough […]
Continue Readingpublished: May 2016 Note: This post will be a sort of part 1 of a 2-part follow-up to my post on Understanding and Managing Jealousy: If you have not read the other two articles then please take a look. A. Introduction To get the most out of this article you will have to closely examine your past […]
Continue ReadingI was fortunate enough to be able to participate in a single session of a class held at our congregation (The Free Congregation of Sauk County) where this question was asked by Nick Schweitzer, the class’ facilitator: 18. When someone asks you how an atheist can be moral, what do you think the underlying question […]
Continue ReadingThis is a wonderful poem that I heard read at our congregation at the Free Congregation of Sauk County, and it touched me enough to post it. It is written by Rebecca Parker, a Methodist/Unitarian Universalist minister, who attended famous UU seminary the Starr King Seminary. Choose to Bless the World by Rebecca Parker Your […]
Continue ReadingThe following article titled ‘The Apology’Â is pulled directly from Dr. Stewart Edser’s Website ‘Being Gay, drugs Being Christian’. I felt compelled to reproduce his wonderful article for posterity, if, for some reason, his should go off-line. Please do not read it here. Click on over to his site Being Gay, Being Christian The Apology Here […]
Continue ReadingThis is sad but true. The Tea Part has no real grasp on what America really is or who our founders really are. They claim to be Christians and hide behind claims of righteousness, but violate Jesus’ words at every turn. Hypocrisy and fundamentalism at it worst. Matthew Vines speaks on the theological debate regarding […]
Continue ReadingAs a follow up to my previous post on this topic titled “Ugandas Death Dentence Legislation for LGBT Peoples and the ‘Christians’ Who Counseled Them Towards This End ” – I just recently found this link from WATCH: RACHEL MADDOW INTERVIEWS UGANDAN MP DAVID BAHATI, AUTHOR OF THE ‘KILL THE GAYS’ BILL. It is actually […]
Continue ReadingIf you have not followed California’s Prop 8 trial please take the moment to watch the district court appeal which should give you an ideal and a great summary as to what this is all about and both sides’ views. One of the places it is available is via C-SPAN and it all starts at […]
Continue ReadingHere is the “It Gets Better Project” and other associated It Gets Better videos on You Tube to which Obama, Jewel, Chris Colfer from the Glee cast, Prince Poppycock from America’s Got Talent, Zachary Quinto from Heroes and the New Star Trek movie, and many, many more participate to show their support for gay children […]
Continue ReadingThe American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) published a video collage covering the journey Towards overturning California’s Proposition 8. Please watch it. AFER 2009-2010 from American Foundation for Equal Ri on Vimeo.
Continue ReadingIn a previous post about Biblical/Theological Humanism that I had written a while back  titled “Theological Humanism? A solution to the divide?” I mention that religions need to start approaching their theology from a more humanistic perspective otherwise they will, at some point, find themselves irrelevant and ignored, but my primary focus was the fundamentalist and […]
Continue ReadingI know not everyone will agree with my beliefs or find this suitable for them, but I have been, as of the last 4+ or so years, engaged in a lot of reading and reflection on religion and science and so on to try and figure out where I stand. The following is  a work […]
Continue ReadingI recently finished the book Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. It is an excellent and life altering book. It really ties together a lot of what I have read about evolutionary psychology and evolutionary biology. If you have not read this book, or even if you have never read an evolutionary […]
Continue ReadingCalifornia’s Appellate Court granted a stay on Judge Vaughn’s ruling pending appeal. This was, in my opinion, to be expected since this is such a high profile case and precedent setting case, Â so nothing drastic there. However, there is some good news as far as this process is concerned as is covered here BREAKING: 9th […]
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