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Frans de Waal's Bottom-Up Morality: We're Not Good Because Of God

Via: z • Religion & Ethics • 8 Comments • 11 years ago

In a book coming out next week called The Bonobo and the Atheist , primatologist Frans de Waal argues that morality is built into our species. Rather than coming to us top-down from God, or...

Pope Francis: U.S. was ‘stupid’ for shuffling around pedophile priests instead of firing them

Via: z • Religion & Ethics • 7 Comments • 11 years ago

Pope Francis is staunchly opposed to the stupid practice of reassigning priests who are accused of pedophilia, preferring to drum them out of the priesthood instead. The former archbishop...

How could Christians not hate Jesus..

Via: retired-military-ex-republican • Religion & Ethics • 10 Comments • 11 years ago

Jesus said pick up a cross and follow me. Like thats going to happen. Take care of the needy and the poor. Give up your worldly goods. Many idealogical thoughts that won't play today....

An Urgent Plea

Via: neetu2 • Religion & Ethics • 8 Comments • 11 years ago

We live in a free country. We abide by laws, most of the time. Our laws are there for our protection. But, what happens when the laws turn against us? What happens when victims of rape become...

WBC on top of latest god violence

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 5 Comments • 11 years ago

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Problem of Muslim Leadership

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Religion & Ethics • 3 Comments • 11 years ago

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Problem of Muslim Leadership Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2013 Another Islamist terror attack, another round of assurances that it had nothing to do with the religion...

6 Theodicy and ethics

Via: chloe • Religion & Ethics • 55 Comments • 11 years ago

" Karmic retribution means that every deed or action has consequences and evil deeds bring about suffering. Suffering is not punishment by a God who is free to punish or not, but rather is an...

‘EVOLUTION VS. GOD’ a video documentary you have to see.

Via: jerry-verlinger • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • 11 years ago

Evangelist Ray Comfort has produced a 38-minute video called the Evolution vs. God documentary . The video, which received 46,000 comments in just over three weeks, has, to no ones...

Is There a Moral Argument for Just War in Syria?

Via: z • Religion & Ethics • 13 Comments • 11 years ago

There has been much recent discussion of the political and legal arguments for and against striking military targets in Syria in response to the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons against...

Controversial Pastor Terry Jones arrested before he could burn Qurans

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 5 Comments • 11 years ago

Law enforcement officers arrested a Florida pastor Wednesday as he drove to a park to light nearly 3,000 Qurans on fire to protest the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Polk County...

Darwin' s Theory may be proved in ISLAM

Via: dr-khaled-pasha • Religion & Ethics • 53 Comments • 11 years ago

******************************************************** 1) More than 1400 years ago , the magnificent ALLAH, directing his holy words to human beings , in a " soura" (means, part of holy quraan),...

Most holy water harbors fecal matter

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 62 Comments • 11 years ago

A team of researchers at the Institute of Hygiene and Applied Immunology at the Medical University of Vienna decided to find out exactly whats in the holy water that religious people...

Finds in Israel demonstrate worship of divine couple

Via: loretta-mashkawidee-kemsley • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • 11 years ago

Female figurines and inscribed prayers to a "divine couple" found in temples in Israel suggest that the one God of the Bible may not have been entirely alone.

Austria: Catholic church fined for phone texting

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 22 Comments • 11 years ago

A diocese in the southern city of Graz says it has been found guilty of contravening Austria's telecommunications law by sending mass texts to the cellphones of followers asking them to pay...

Story of Jesus Christ was 'fabricated to pacify the poor', claims controversial Biblical scholar

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 88 Comments • 11 years ago

A controversial American biblical scholar is set to make his first appearance in London next week to present a discovery that he claims proves the story of Jesus Christ was invented as a...

A Hypothesis for Eve & Adam

Via: human-brain • Religion & Ethics • 5 Comments • 11 years ago

1.8 millions year ago *********************************************************************** This ' discovery ' drove me to remember again the contradiction , that I found inthe holy...

Along came a Stink Bug

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • 11 years ago

A somewhat mundane thing happened to me this morning, but after thinking about it for a while I realized that similar circumstances might cause some folks to assign deeper meaning to...

Before Acheiving The Heaven Or Hell ' Time '

Via: human-brain • Religion & Ethics • 10 Comments • 11 years ago

Let us remember that every human is born with 'neutral' heart that contains , neither (devil) nor goodness. We may explain the causes of these changes in a human behavior during his life as...

Movember -- November is Moustache Month!

Via: dowser • Religion & Ethics • 30 Comments • 11 years ago

I found this video and thought it was hilarious! I hope you enjoy it!I like moustaches, myself... Good thing, since my husband has one!Thanks for coming by!

Penis shaped church erected in Dixon IL

Via: krounded • Religion & Ethics • 7 Comments • 11 years ago

Well....the sermon this week is: Who told you that you were naked - Genesis 3:11 The site used to be used to manufacture gas, so I guess this is an improvement....

Costco in Simi Valley labels Bibles as fiction; pastor disagrees

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • 11 years ago

A Costco in Simi Valley found itself in a flap this week after a local pastor posted a photo on Twitter showing Bibles at the big-box store labeled as fiction. Caleb Kaltenbach, pastor of...

The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning -- by Jonathan Sacks

Via: len • Religion & Ethics • 31 Comments • 11 years ago

Book Summary: ***National Jewish Book Awards 2012, Finalist*** Dorot Foundation Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience An impassioned, erudite, thoroughly researched, and beautifully...

Organization promoting religious freedom plans to deploy atheist billboards

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 85 Comments • 11 years ago

source An organization that promotes the separation of church and state plans to deploy more than 50 billboards in the Sacramento, Calif. area to highlight atheists who are ignoring...

From “Faith and Doubt,” by Rabbi Norman Lamm, Ktav Publishers, 1986

Via: len • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 11 years ago

For many contemporary men and women, God is irrelevant, and secularism triumphant; there are no longer any questions. However, for many others, the will to believe is alive but not the ability to...

The new Pope deserves all the acclaim he is getting and much much more.

Via: retired-military-ex-republican • Religion & Ethics • 8 Comments • 11 years ago

Time Magazine man of the year and very deserving. The new Pope is bound to upset the Catholic Church of the United States of Corporations. Can our Government endure his reign. Remember when the...

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