August 2008

Some people are just annoyed by wind turbines, or believe conspiracies about negative health impacts. This could slow the energy transition.

Rev. Samuel Krouse, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Colusa, California, acknowledges several pivotal points about atheism, long denied by most religious apologists.

As eloquent now as he was 200 years ago, Sade intellectually crushed the foundations of God-belief and for this we owe him a debt.

Some of the wackier beliefs and practices of The Summit Lighthouse are listed here. You won’t read about these in their promotional materials.

Michael explained that he contacted the dead person “on the other side” and his wife drew sketches, which were immediately recognized as authentic by relatives.

Is this about changing behavior? Of course it is. Some libertarians and resource cornucopians might cast it as an issue of personal freedom–the freedom to use and dispose of as many plastic bags as one cares to. Maybe like some sort of God-given right.

Recognition of human rights is diametrically opposed to the concept of sin. Sin, with its accompanying payload of denial, guilt and fear, is the bludgeon used by all religions to perpetuate their control.