The Silly Season of the Supernatural
Here, at last, is a point on which an atheist and a good Christian can surely agree: the mortal remains of the crucified Jesus are never going to be found by mortal man.
April 2007 Archives
April 10, 2007 7:00 AM
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An Atheist's Creed
As someone who is often asked how those who don't believe in God can survive tragedies, I can offer nothing more eloquent than this excerpt from a speech, delivered on January 8, 1882, by Robert Green Ingersoll. Ingersoll, who was known as "the Great Agnostic," was speaking at the burial service for a friend's young child.
April 19, 2007 7:54 AM
Diverse Muslims, Violent Islamist Fundamentalism
First, the Muslim religion and Islamist fundamentalism as a religio-political force are two different, though related, entities. Muslims, like all religious believers, vary enormously in their attitudes toward violence, interpretations of their sacred texts, respect or disrespect for secular government, and openness to secular knowledge.
April 26, 2007 8:55 AM
Cheap Apologies and Unearned Forgiveness
We live in the age of the non-apologetic apology. In public and private life, Americans have become accustomed to the debasing spectacle of meaningless, responsibility-shifting mea culpas, followed by pleas for unearned forgiveness, always omitting any mention of exactly what the miscreant intends to do to make amends to those who have been hurt.
