All Entries in the "Religiosity" Category
Control Your Local Police
by Dave Hummels, Center for a Stateless Society, Feb 18, 2013 While reflecting on recent episodes of police misconduct in my community and beyond, I began to think about how much law enforcement agencies resemble the Catholic Church. And no, this is not a pre-St. Patrick’s day Irish joke. Consider the following: The Church and police departments have [...]
Gaza ceasefire goes into effect
Al Jazeera, 21 Nov 2012 22:11 Israel and Hamas agree to truce after eight days of attacks in which 162 Palestinians and five Israelis are killed. A ceasefire has gone into effect in and around the Gaza Strip, after Israel and Hamas agreed to cease hostilities. Some Palestinians in Gaza City took to the streets [...]
No One Murdered Because Of This Image
from The Onion, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 | ISSUE 48•37 | WASHINGTON—Following the publication of the image above, in which the most cherished figures from multiple religious faiths were depicted engaging in a lascivious sex act of considerable depravity, no one was murdered, beaten, or had their lives threatened, sources reported Thursday. The image of the Hebrew prophet [...]
A Religion for the Rest of Us…Possibilianism
From PopTech: “Neuroscientist and bestselling author David Eagleman introduces the concept of possibilianism, a new philosophy that simultaneously embraces a scientific toolbox while exploring new, unconsidered uncertainties about the world around us.” Possibilianism is a philosophy which rejects both the idiosyncratic claims of traditional theism and the positions of certainty in atheism in favor of a middle, [...]
