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5 Myths Atheists Believe about Religion
Despite their emphasis on reason, evidence and a desire to see through false truth claims, many atheists hold surprisingly ill-informed beliefs about religion. Many of these myths go unquestioned simply because they serve the purpose of attacking religion at large. They allow for the construction of a straw man i.e.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 16, 2011 at Common Sense Religion
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When Positive Thinking Becomes Religion: How “The Secret” and Law of Attraction Poison Spirituality
By Be Scofield - Crossposted from Tikkun Magazine We must understand that the founder of a cult or new religion has no room for compromise: absolutes are necessary. True believers in mystical psychotherapy will not embrace a gospel with modest claims: it must be all or nothing. – Martin Larson... Continue reading
Posted Aug 2, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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Does Religion Cause Bad Behavior? Hitchens Can't Decide
Posted Jul 27, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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What Christopher Hitchens and the New Atheists Can Learn From Malcolm X
By Be Scofield - Crossposted from Tikkun Daily and Alternet As one of the most prominent public voices resisting the culture of Christian and religious dominance Christopher Hitchens earns himself a comparison to the freedom fighter who nearly fifty years ago urged the civil rights movement to "stop singing and... Continue reading
Posted Jul 6, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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Are the New Atheists Wrong to Suggest Religious Moderates Justify the Extremes?
By Be Scofield - Crossposted from Tikkun Magazine and Alternet I want your opinion about something. I’m a liberal religious person who doesn’t believe in doctrines, dogma or a supernatural God. 19% of members in my tradition identify as atheist, 30% as agnostic and the rest Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Christian,... Continue reading
Posted Jun 28, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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God Doesn't Play Favorites: A Religious Person Rethinks Prayer
By Be Scofield - Crossposted from Tikkun Magazine God does not answer prayer. There, I've said it. I know for some my assertion is scandalous, while for others it is mere common sense. But before you summon the inquisitor to prepare the rack or brand me a heretic or rush... Continue reading
Posted Jun 22, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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Christian Hegemony: The Power of Language
By Be Scofield - Crossposted from Tikkun Magazine “You’re either with us or against us.” – from Matthew 12:30 “Language is the perfect instrument of empire.”- Antonia De Nebrija I recommend checking out the latest booklet from Paul Kivel called “The Language of Dominant Christianity” (available as a downloadable PDF... Continue reading
Posted Jun 22, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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God is Not Only Great A Response to Henry Augustine
By Be Scofield - Crossposted from IntegralWorld I'm not sure which is more surprising to me; that Henry Augustine wrote an article which contained in the title "the only feasible proof of God" or that he claimed to have done this in 400 words. If all it were to take... Continue reading
Posted Jun 22, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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Disease of Conscience: A Response to Pete Bampton and Andrew Cohen Supporters
Posted Jun 22, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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Simone Weil’s Critique of Marxism
Posted Jun 22, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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Unitarian Universalist Eschatology
Posted Jun 22, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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Hosea Ballou: Saved by Love
Posted Jun 22, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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Dorothy Day and Simone Weil: God, War and Poverty
Posted Jun 22, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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Jun 22, 2010
Derrick Jensen: Destroying Civilization is NOT the Answer
By Be Scofield. This is crossposted from Tikkun Magazine. Derrick Jensen wants to destroy civilization. The well known author, environmental activist, philosopher and “anarcho-primitivist” argues we should speed up the impending collapse of the global industrial society because when “civilization” collapses the aftermath won’t be as bad as if we... Continue reading
Posted Jun 21, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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King’s God: The Unknown Faith of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted Jun 21, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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Resources for the Radical King
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal... Continue reading
Posted Jun 21, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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The Disturbing but Common Christian Morality Of Pat Robertson
By Be Scofield. Crossposted from Tikkun Magazine Pat Robertson’s latest claim that God punished Haiti for making a pact with the devil was rightly condemned by religious and political leaders across the spectrum. However, there is an irony here in that many of those leaders or religious laypeople who saw... Continue reading
Posted Jun 21, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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Why the New Atheists are SO 19th Century
By Be Scofield. Crossposted from Alternet.org and Tikkun Magazine Despite having engaged in numerous debates with Christians, Muslims and Jews across the liberal/conservative spectrum Christopher Hitchens still holds to an amazingly ignorant understanding of the liberal religious heritage. His understanding of who is and who isn’t a Christian is perhaps... Continue reading
Posted Jun 21, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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"We're All Born Atheists": A Religious Person Defends Non-Belief
By Be Scofield. Crossposted from Alternet.org and Tikkun Magazine Being an atheist in America means being less than human. I know from personal experience, not from being an atheist but from being raised Christian in a conservative Christian town and holding negative biases about atheists. Like many others I thought... Continue reading
Posted Jun 21, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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Integral Abuse: Andrew Cohen and the Culture of Evolutionary Enlightenment
Posted Jun 21, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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Why Atheists Choose Religion
Posted Jun 21, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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"We're All Born Atheists" A Religious Person Defends Non-Belief
Posted Jun 19, 2010 at Common Sense Religion
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