Archive for May, 2005

God the Product, the Son and the Holy Spirit

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

I just finished reading the cover story from the May 23 issue of Business Week. Free registration is required, but if you don’t want to bother, use “evangelicalatheist” as the user name and “password” as the password. “Earthly Empires” is about the big business of evangelical megachurches. For those of you who […]

Origin of Religion - Part II: Fear of Responsibility

Sunday, May 29th, 2005

Responsibility is frightening on any level. From individual responsibility for one’s own survival all the way up to our species’ responsibility for our home planet, it’s an enormous burden. In fact, if you thought about nothing but your responsibilities, on all levels, every waking minute of every day, you’d be hurtling toward a […]

Dealing with Theists

Friday, May 27th, 2005

I was just over at Atheist Revolution, vjack’s blog, reading the May 18 post entitled How Are We to Treat Believers?. I think this is an immensely important question. I would bet that the vast majority of atheists (maybe not in this crowd) hide in their little godless closets. I don’t say […]

Bush Prepares to Deliver First Veto After 17 Trimesters in Office

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

As I’m sure everyone is aware by now, the U.S. House of Representatives made a futile gesture on Tuesday, passing a bill that would allow federal funding for stem cell research and sending that bill to the Senate. The Senate is expected to… well, it actually doesn’t make a damn bit of difference […]

The Enemy Within

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

Let me share with you two quotes I found interesting.

Now as Christians we believe that the basic starting point is the regeneration of man. Then man takes and applies that faith. For Christians the basic government is the self-government of the Christian man. Then the basic governmental unit is the family. This means that every […]