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Why America’s ‘nones’ left religion behind
With the percentage of U.S. adults who do not identify with a religious group growing, we asked these people to explain, in their own words, why they left.
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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
By Carlo M. Cipolla.
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Was Mother Teresa a saint? In city she made synonymous with suffering, a renewed debate over her legacy
As the Catholic Church prepares to canonize her as a saint, the city formerly known as Calcutta is poised for a rare moment in the spotlight. But not everyone is celebrating.
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The Transhumanist Future Has No Pope
Everywhere I look, Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Catholic Church, seems to be in the news—and he is being positively portrayed as a genuinely progressive leader. Frankly, this baffles me. Few major religions have as backwards a philosophical and moral platform as Catholicism. Therefore, no leader of it could actually be genuinely progressive. Yet, no one seems to pay attention to this—no one seems to be discussing that Catholicism remains highly oppressive.
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Can Atheists Believe In A Valid Moral System?
One of my students took the staunch position that atheists could not possibly have any valid foundation for morality since they don't believe in a god or gods. This statement echoed in my head for quite a while. It wasn't the first time I had pondered the fascinating subject of morality, but this time, I was faced with just how arbitrary it seemed to claim that you have a "more valid" foundation for morality than anyone else.
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A Less Lonely Way to Lose Your Faith
Where do nonreligious people go to find community? Some might join a sports league or a film society or attend a local atheist meet-up. Some might hang out online. But in certain parts of the country, some might join Oasis, a community of humanists, agnostics, atheists, self-identified freethinkers, and even questioning theists. Oasis members see their fellowship as guided by values that emphasize people’s common humanity, the first being that “people are more important than beliefs.”
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Cross Ways
A pastor at a Corpus Christi church is on a mission to build “the largest cross in the Western Hemisphere.”
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Why Universities Are a Key Battleground for Human Rights in India
The year 2016 began for the government of India with a huge hiccup. Rohith Vemula, a research scholar who happened to be a Dalit (or from the so-called untouchable caste), committed suicide on January 17. He took this step after his university administration failed to respond to his recent letter to Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Podile of the Hyderabad Central University, in which Vemula complained of the deep-rooted discrimination driven by caste that still corrodes the atmosphere of India’s universities.
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Atheist Debates - What does atheism offer?
I've frequently been asked "What does atheism have to offer?" - and it's come up so many times that it seemed like a good idea to offer a little more than the obvious answer.
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How They Wrestled with the New
Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume lived in a historical period dominated by dramatic developments and conflicts in three areas—science, religion, and politics—and their thoughts and writings were dominated by the need to respond to those developments, and to understand the relations among them. By Thomas Nagel.
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Master/Mind
Francesco Paciocco
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The Return of the Utopians
What today’s movements for social and economic reform can learn from the intentional communities of the nineteenth century. By Akash Kapur.
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Seven Books That Will Change How You See the World
These non-fiction books just might reconfigure your entire understanding of reality and your place within it.
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When in doubt, shout
Why shaking someone’s beliefs turns them into stronger advocates. By Ed Yong. (Oct. 19, 2010)
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“Just Another Version of You”
The Life, Art and Activism of Legendary TV Producer Norman Lear. Interviewed by Amy Goodman.
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No country on Earth is taking the 2 degree climate target seriously
If we mean what we say, no more new fossil fuels, anywhere. By David Roberts.
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The Ideology of the Anti-Gay Movement Is an Ideology of Inconsistency and Hypocrisy
Regardless of the fact that they trip over themselves insisting that their actions and words are not “hatred” or “bigotry”, the anti-gay crusade that calls much of the world home persists in its state of naivety, intolerance, and outright denial of reason and compassion.
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Kierkegaard’s Rebellion
Kierkegaard is widely considered the most important religious thinker of the modern age. This is because he dramatized with special intensity the conflict between religion and secular reason, between private faith and the public world, and he went so far as to entertain the thought that a genuine reconciliation between them is impossible. By Peter E. Gordon.
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“Good men are God in the flesh”
“[I]n an era marked by the rise of Lynch Law, across the U.S. American South, restrictions on voter rights, and a turn away from African American rights across the nation, Frederick Douglass traveled widely, and used his podium to argue that any person, notwithstanding physical attributes, class, or caste, could attain virtue…” By Daniel Joslyn.
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Iraq's new atheism in the shadow of Islamic State
Shaho is 29, a government employee. He hunches over some tea, chain-smoking throughout our three hours together. He is this group's founder, and his natural confidence makes him something of a spokesman, too. Several years ago, stuck between the marauding jihadism of IS and the incompetency of the Iraqi government, he set up this symposium, and named it "Logic". The group is an intellectual refuge for Iraq's atheists and secularists, a people denied any official existence by the country's government, and holders of a death sentence courtesy of the Islamic State group.
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