…the Southern Baptists. Bobby Welch couldn’t be here tonight to accept this award, so I’ll be receiving it in his place.
The Southern Baptist Convention just concluded its annual meeting in Nashville, TN. The SBC is currently the second largest denomination in the United States (after the Roman Catholic Church) with 16.3 million members, […]
Many moderate atheists believe that some forms of religion are acceptable. If the beliefs are mild, and the adherents keep to themselves, how bad can it be? They often point to Buddhism as an example of a faith that’s “under control” and rational. For the most part, Buddhism doesn’t actively seek influence […]
I am taking a break from the Origin of Religion series this week for two reasons. The first is that I seem to be a lot more interested in it than my readers are. The second is that I want to waste no time in replying to a theist who commented this morning […]
At the suggestion of a reader (jdt), I’ve been reading The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes (1976). I’m not even 100 pages in, but there’s already enough material to make for a good post.
Jaynes starts out with a discussion of what exactly consciousness is. At […]
Depending on which poll you trust, the United States is between 75% and 85% Christian. In a democracy, majority rules, and that’s a pretty big majority. What, then, stands in the way of pure Christian rule in this country? The answer is fragmentation. Catholic, Mainline Protestant, Pentecostal, Evangelical, Ethnic and Orthodox […]
