Posts Tagged ‘religion’

“I am not my belief system.”

Just watched a video that put words to something I’ve been feeling for a while now.  It’s a conversation between Spencer Burke and Tim King about several aspects of religion including the presence of doomsday scenarios in most of the world’s religions and the propensity to convert a person of a different belief system rather [...]

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Religion, Morality, and Youth

dCheck out this fascinating episode of NPR’s “On Point with Tom Ashbrook” that aired this morning.  It’s called “Religion, Morality and Youth,” and asks what compass or hope guides people from 18-29 in 2009.  His guests are Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein and sociologist Christian Smith.  I hope you’ll listen to the entire hour, because [...]

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the future of religion

Earlier this year, I read Sam Harris’ The End of Faith, in which the renowned atheist called for an end to religious belief on account for the evil it makes us all do to each other. All religion, Harris argues, is at best fundamentalist and sectarian by nature (claiming it is the sole path to [...]

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