On October 30th, 1938, Martians landed in Grover’s Mill, NJ and began their invasion of the United States by advancing on New York City. At least that’s how some remember it. About 6 million people tuned in to CBS radio during Orson Welles’ dramatization of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. […]
People, living together, need rules. Period. I’m sure there are a couple of anarchists in the audience who would disagree, but I’m equally sure they would be unable to produce an example of an anarchic society that functioned for more than a short time. Religion is very good at providing rules. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last night, excited about my new blog, I went to the religion section on my bookshelves and pulled out an old favorite. I started thumbing through A History of God by Karen Armstrong. If you’re interested in the development and evolution of the religions of the book (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), I highly […]
