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Polytheism It is not clear why the change from polytheism to monotheism should be assumed to be a self-evident progressive improvement. But it widely is - an assumption that provoked Ibn Warraq (author of Why I Am Not A Muslim) wittily to conjecture that monotheism is in turn doomed to subtract one more god and become atheism. The Catholic Encyclopedia dismisses polytheism and atheism in the...

 Why there is almost certainly no God. The Priests of the different religious sects...dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivisions of the duperies on which they live' Thomas Jefferson The Ultimate Boeing 747 The argument from improbability is the big one. It is the traditional guise of the argument of design.,...

A deeply religious non-believer I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe to at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it. Albert Einstien Deserved respect The boy lies prone in the grass , his chin resting on his hands. He suddenly found himself overwhelmed by a heightened awareness of the tangled stems and roots, a forest...

I have begun to publish sections and segments of the Popes letter on OUR network of blogs (NatuRedux.com) as well as on Linkedin & Quora & Newsvine & NewsTalkers and will add my comments over time. Pappa francescos 180 page letter is much less about religion than it is about nature and the planet earth. He proposes some fairly radical yet simple and understandable solutions...

Couldn't find a blog on NewsTalkers  - so here is one ... obviously  there's some work remaining on the new interface .... no text list of members to facilitate finding old friends for one ...

  I have begun to publish sections and segments of the Popes letter on OUR network of blogs (NatuRedux.com) as well as on Linkedin & Quora & Newsvine & NewsTalkers and will add my comments over time. Pappa francescos 180 page letter is much less about religion than it is about nature and the planet earth. He proposes some fairly radical yet simple and understandable solutions for...

Way back in 2008, I started on Huffpo and NV as Indy Lib. Folks got confused and thought I was a liberal from Indianapolis. It was actually short for Independent Liberation. So I changed my name to Chucky Stuart, and so it was for several years. I dropped from Huffpo and started on NewsTalkers, trying to find common ground with folks from all ideologies. Well, Chucky was a wimp, so I ghosted...

2016 Sixpick for the highest office in the land. 1. He is loved by everyone - Moderates, Commies, RWNJ's 2. He understands the damage Obama has done and how to repair the damage. 3. He is a voice for the working class and not obligated to big donors. 4. He understands the immigration problem and why you can't have both a welfare state and open borders. 5. He is a...

"Why are you running? You know you can't outrun a bear! "I don't have to outrun the bear ..... I just have to outrun you!"

This is not to be a philosophical essay on intergenerational justice. ( http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-intergenerational/ ) It shall be, instead, spare and sparse and even terse. This is not a question in search of an answer, though answers are welcome, as is dialogue. I am standing beside a stream, a small river. I have a 55 gallon drum of toxic crap to get rid of. I dump it...

Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade from Garrett Graham on Vimeo . Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade is an hour-long documentary film written and directed by Garrett Graham in collaboration with the Tar Sands Blockade and features exclusive video footage shot by the blockaders themselves during the course of over six months of sustained resistance. In...