i’m less likely to call out to god than godot
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dylan is my godfather who will protect me
while cash is my wetnurse
and bukowski cries with me in that great dive bar in the sky
where all the loose women come free of tears. Read on…
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Humanist Values- Relationships
At the risk of inciting more anti-Humanist Manifesto III feelings, I am going to stubbornly continue through the list. 🙂 Next up is one which is even less specific than the last: Humans are social by nature and find meaning in relationships. By my standards, at least, that is more of a New-age philosophy than it is a Humanist philosophy. It feels vaguely like something taken from a Depok Chopra self-help book. Still, we will soldier on. Read on…
Famous Freethinkers- Asimov, Isaac
Creationists make it sound as though a “theory” is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. Read on…
Legacy
I learned to question God
from a story of Yom Kippur my mother once told
on broadloom steps that muflled sound,
her voice foggy with memory. Read on…
Humanist Values- Serving Humane Ideals
The fourth of the Humanist values from the 2003 Humanist Manifesto III has always seemed a little soft for me. It says, “Life’s fulfillment emerges from individual participation in the service of humane ideals.” One supposes they meant it to be that way, since it can mean so many things to so many different people. Personally, I would be happier of it mentioned some concrete possibilities. The sentiment is clear, in any event. There is reason to believe that ethical … Read on…
Historical Humanists- Arnold, Matthew
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
— Matthew Arnold Read on…
World Humanist Day
People sometimes ask me whether I’m an agnostic, an atheist, a skeptic – or what. I have a standard reply: I don’t think about labels; I just think about being honest and truthful. Read on…
Dim theories of an afterlife
Dim theories of an afterlife,
Reincarnation, grip our mind. Read on…
Fading Faith
A historic transition is occurring, barely noticed. Slowly, quietly, imperceptibly, religion is shriveling in America, as it has done in Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan and other advanced societies. Supernatural faith increasingly belongs to the Third World. The First World is entering the long-predicted Secular Age, when science and knowledge dominate. The change promises to be another shift of civilization, like past departures of the era of kings, the time of slavery, the Agricultural Age, the epoch of colonialism, and the like. Such cultural transformations are partly invisible to contemporary people, but become obvious in retrospect. Read on…
Famous Freethinkers- Adams, Phillip
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.
— Phillip Adams, Adams vs. God Read on…