Freethinkers is similar in many ways to Battle for God, but my reaction to it is totally different. I found myself fighting anti-godder feelings while reading Armstrong, including developing a distaste for Armstrong herself. As I discussed in another post I'm not comfortable with the "hating&qu...

taravQuote:I will always be a proud Jersey Girl.. . . and I remain a New Yorker, through and through. It sometimes weirds me out a little that my son is a Missouri native, it seems impossible but it's true. I suppose I will have to give up the traditional New Yorker attitude toward New Jersey if I'm...

misterpessimisticQuote:I knew I liked Virginia for a reason...I always liked it because it sounds like "vagina"

misterpessimisticQuote:. . . freethinkers of the past, . . .were and are still marginalized by the religious institution of this country . . . Does anyone think this is the case? Was it by intention or oversight?I think the primary principle at work here is confirmation bias. Until recently, it was ...

Amen brotha pessimistic. I used to do the insult thing; Phooey! I see part of my purpose in chatting in Religion:x rooms as learning to stay equanimical and rational, just as Mr. P says. And although it doesn't come up that much in real life it's good to be prepared. I've gone a bit to the other ext...

Holy Glockenspiel, batman! I just transcribed this same passage and came here to post it. If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything. Daniel Dennett, 1984

I'm getting ready to start posting on Jacoby. I never posted a word on Collapse, although I found it interesting and entertaining, as well as disturbing. I felt the whole time like I should be posting but somehow, there just doesn't seem to be that much to SAY that Thomas Malthus didn't say already....

3 for blink and I coulda SWORE I already voted but I can't find itjc If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything. Daniel Dennett, 1984

Quote:Jeremy!!! When have you been!?Welcome back!Getting divorced, coming out, the usual gay midlife stuff. Thank you! If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything. Daniel Dennett, 1984

Quote:I say 'men', because they are a whole category of friend for me: I always had my female friends, my gay male friends, and my thinking Christian male friends --My first boyfriend was (is) a sincere, practicing Roman Catholic. See, I'm not totally intolerant! If you make yourself really small, y...