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The Spiritual Agnostic’s Dilemma: Figuring Out How to Be a Good Man Without...
Jake DiMare is discovering how to blend spiritual practices into an otherwise agnostic life. The only goal? To help keep him on track toward goodness. Recently, founder Tom Matlack posed the...
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Very Superstitious
Rituals we perform for good luck are known as sorcery, and actions we avoid out of superstition are taboos. “One morning I happened to turn over the salt-cellar at breakfast. I reached for some of it...
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Kicked Out of Sunday School
As a child, Carl Pettit didn’t believe in God, and was sure he’d go to Hell for his disbelief. When I was a child, I often wondered about the nature of God. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on...
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Faking It
Who do you put your faith in, who might be faking their belief? Some years back, at the break of dawn, I found myself sitting on a hard mat inside the Thikse monastery, located in the ancient kingdom...
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The Jewish Guy at Mass
Pete Wilgoren helps his eight-year-old daughter explore the complicated world of religion —- When people ask about religion I’d like to make a box for “it’s complicated”. I’m Jewish. My wife is...
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Living Between the Lines of Faith and Uncertainty
Pastor Ryan Bell’s “Year Without God” experiment gained him national attention for simply daring to question out loud. —— Pastor Ryan Bell sparked a firestorm. It wasn’t the coveted revival that most...
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President Obama Opens Up About Atheism and the ‘Nones’
In a first time exclusive, HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maker asks President Barack Obama about a growing and underrepresented part of the electorate: nonbelievers. Photo: YouTube still The post...
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Skepticism, Humanism, Atheism, and Right Wing Upbringing
Embed from Getty Images — Angelos Sofocleous is a friend and colleague. We write together a decent amount. I asked about an interview for an ebook, where we would discuss his background. I wanted to...
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Why You Shouldn’t Neglect Physical Self-Care
— Everyone should practice self-care, but many don’t know how. Discussion around self-care is often ambiguous and confusing. It’s easy to get caught up in your thoughts, letting them run an endless...
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Many, Many, Many Gods
— “Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.” – Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), creator of the essay. But Montaigne spoke too modestly. Instead of dozens,...
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Supernatural Beliefs: The Trillion Dollar Fraud
Think of the amazing number of supernatural beliefs held by people: Gods, goddesses, devils, demons, angels, heavens, hells, purgatories, limbos, miracles, prophecies, visions, auras, saviors, virgin...
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Doubts of the Famous
— Many famous people have been skeptics, and weren’t afraid to say so. Here’s part of my personal treasury of nuggets, collected over the decades: Writers “All thinking men are atheists.” – Ernest...
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Popular Evangelicalism Isn’t the Solution to the “Nones”… It’s the Problem
It appears as though Christians are having a bit of a rough go of it at present. The number of people identifying as Christian has fallen precipitously over the past 10 years. According to a new...
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You Don’t Need ‘God’ to Know You Are the Beauty in Life
You Are the Beauty in Life And you don’t need religion to tell you that Good people who still identify as religious do not like their religion’s authoritarianism, which they can clearly sense. But...
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Thoughts and Prayers
My daughter Sophie plays rugby. The Sunday before Thanksgiving, her mom and I drove to Poughkeepsie, New York, to watch her play in the American Collegiate Rugby Association semi-finals. She didn’t...
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The Reason Freethought Groups Work
I’m going to meander a bit. Even though they work on shoestring budgets, they tend to work more than fail. That’s baffling at face value. We can reflect on why, though. The fundamental practical...
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