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Category Archives: PHIL 500
Burial ground as a human right?
Christians in predominantly Hindu Nepal demand land to bury their dead: Christians have been protesting since a ban was imposed earlier this year on a traditional burial area next to a revered Hindu temple in Katmandu. The Supreme Court has … Continue reading
Posted in Cemeteries, Death and Immortality, Funerals, Religion Blog
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The battle of the billboards
Whiplash indeed! A public bus rolls by with an atheist message on its side: “Millions of people are good without God.” Seconds later, a van follows bearing a riposte: “I still love you. — God,” with another line that says, … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Religion Blog, Religious Belief
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Learning to hate God
Add this to the “learn something new every day” category: Misotheism doesn’t accord with binary thinking about religious belief. We are accustomed to view people as either believers, who worship a divinity, or nonbelievers (atheists) or doubters (agnostics), for whom … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Religion Blog, Religious Belief
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Blogging your death
This didn’t make it on to the blog while I was co-teaching the Death and Immortality course. I realize the word is bandied about a lot, blessedly not as much as it was during the Bush administration, but this takes … Continue reading
Posted in Death and Immortality
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Don’t pray for me Argentina
Well, I only stuck with the title because I think Hitchens would see the humor and agree.
Posted in Atheism, Prayer, Religion Blog, Religious Belief
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Doesn’t Louisiana have enough on its plate?
I’m not sure this school board in Louisiana has thought this through. Benton said that under provisions of the Science Education Act enacted last year by the Louisiana Legislature, schools can present what she termed “critical thinking and creationism” in … Continue reading
Social costs of being an athesist
Very good blog post on outing oneself as an atheist by Lauri Lebo. This wasn’t surprising: 57 percent of U.S. respondents said they felt they would suffer at least minor social repercussions in the workplace if they came out as … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Religion Blog
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Do transplants transfer moral qualities?
Will getting a transplant from a murderer make you evil? More people willing to refuse transplant from a criminal.
Posted in Evil, Religion Blog, Science
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Continued rise in suicides among middle aged
Not a great statistic among Boomers.
Posted in Death and Immortality, Suicide
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Franklin, Aristotle, and immortality
A reminder about the connection between notions of immortality, obituaries and Aristotle’s view about assessing a whole life. Franklin’s view offers us shades (pun intended) of Plato, too. When Socrates says that philosophers especially should be in training for death … Continue reading
Posted in Death and Immortality, Religion Blog
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