Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Growing up Southern Baptist is part of it. Being annoyed by and wishing to counter cheap apologetics figures in. Thinking that religion is probably the most confusing and mystifying aspect of the human psychology rounds out the reasons why this is no surprise:
You know the Bible 100%!

Wow! You are awesome! You [...]

If this is true (via 1gm), freethinkers should run, not walk, away from Sam Harris as fast as our short little legs will carry us.
Frankly I’ve always admired Harris’s ability to turn a phrase and make a succinct case. I have one of his quotes in rotation at the top of the [...]

I don’t know exactly why I wasn’t invited to the Salk Institute forum on science & religion, or asked to participate in the TSN special, Beyond Belief. Maybe because I’m not [mockingly] famous enough. Or maybe because I didn’t hang around for my PhD (or my BS, for that matter). Whatever the reason, [...]

It’s clear that the continued prevalence of this type headline this late in November proves that the terrorists are now trying to influence the recounts. Having won the election, they now want to beat the recount in GA-12, and where was that other one? It’s clear that the only way to get them [...]

Via 1gm again, Newseek/Washington Post has a collaborative “blog” for interfaith discussions, and at first glance, it is quite an ambitious project. It is called On Faith, and includes about 60 different contributors… you have Southern Baptists, pagans, Jews, Buddhists, Mormons, Muslims, Catholics, charismatics, freethinkers… you have movement leaders, political pundits, academics of [...]

I started with a very dim view of the practice of “Speaking in Tounges”. It still freaks me out a little bit. But after having a loved one join a charismatic church where the practice was common, and after my initial freaking out, I talked to a psychiatrist friend at my church who [...]

My own initial reaction, and probably a lot of political liberals, to the troubles of Ted Haggard, included at least a small sense of schadenfreude. But the matter is bigger than politics, bigger than religion.
I mostly sat on my hands and wondered to myself how the fundamentalist right would react. While I was [...]

Another angle on the religion thing.

Toward the observation that people will believe, and apply religious significance, to most anything - this representative account of incorruptible remains. My question for those more knowledgeable than I: Good embalming, deception, or God?