Requiem for the Gods
With all due respect to those who honor, reverence and worship a god or gods/goddesses, I think it’s important now and then to look back on countless cultures in the…
Tag: theology
Heretic Hollow
This essay on the joys and jocularity during seminary years was just posted on Rational Doubt (Patheos). Memories of Mischief and Mirth from Heretic Hollow In memory of Tom Armstrong
Baby god
Joy to the world, the season of Big Babies is Back! Predictably, the seasonal outrage over the fake “war on christmas and christians” has begun: “The 72 Hour War Over…
While God Wasn’t Watching
Breaking (Broken) News Just In from “West Wing Reads” (official White House email): ‘You Had God Watching’ President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump “met Wednesday with some…
Am I Anti-Religious?
Just to call yourself non-religious (secular, humanist, skeptic or atheist) seems to threaten some people who think self-identifying as a non-believer is an attack on their faith. Doesn’t make sense,…
Sacred Profanity
Do words like “sacred” and “holy” (or “profane”) have any meaning anymore? Did they ever? The Sacred, the Holy and a little profanity I recall climbing the long stone stairs…
The Big Green Box
“The Big Green Box” Imagine a box—a big box. Now think bigger and think green—a Big Green Box (BGB). Why “Green”? Because I like green. Ok, the BGB is big…
World Religions Founded by Atheists?
This is something I’ve considered for a long time: Were the World Religions Founded by Atheists? The philosopher Socrates is well-known in the intellectual history of the world. What some…
