This time of the year is always difficult for me. I tend to disappear in all the “holiday cheer.” I don’t celebrate Christmas. I don’t believe in a God, Christian or otherwise. Yet, when you wish me “Merry Christmas,” you …
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I just got the latest eSkeptic, a weekly email sent by the Skeptic Society. Michael Schermer has just edited a pamphlet for the (gasp) Templeton Foundation entitled “Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete?”. Although I think that Schermer made …
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The Pew Forum has published their results of their U.S. Religious Landscape Survey. The survey results are based on a sample of about 35,000 adults, which, since they used random digit dialing, should be representative of the U.S.. Here is …
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There is a Buddhist distinction between pain and suffering: a tooth ache is a pain, the suffering is created by her mental processes around the pain. But isn’t that distinction a luxury? To tell a person who is starving that …
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Please note that i wrote this back in early 2008. My views on Buddhism have changed and thus my words from back then might not necessarily reflect what i am thinking now. However, so much work and time went into …
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I am not even looking at the Republican candidates – the Democratic side has scary enough religious connections. Barack Obama gave a speech at Dr. King’s Church that basically sounds like a sermon. His Website says he is a committed …
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