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Much as I like the idea of a rubric's cube, it's spelled Rubik's cube. (Now what would a rubric's cube…
Great response to the Mace bill by AOC (video at link).
@bcb: Sometimes I think the whole election was an elaborate murder-suicide plot that the entire country is carrying out.
@Megalodon: They've made it clear that their first target is trans Americans. They'll get to that mass deportation stuff when…
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Category Archives: Religion
Cartoon: Deux Ex Machina, Suckers!
This cartoon is another collaboration with awesome cartoonist Nadine Scholtes. One odd thing about being an atheist, as many atheists have pointed out, is that although we disbelieve in all gods, many of us extra disbelieve in a particular God – whichever … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Dogs, Religion
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Why Do They Oppose Gay Marriage? Part 3 In A Very Infrequently Updated And Rather Repetitive Series
From “Public Opinion, the Courts, and Same-sex Marriage: Four Lessons Learned” by Brian Powell, Natasha Yurk Quadlin and Oren Pizmony-Levy, in Social Forces (2015) volume 2 pages 3-12. (Pdf link.) Because I don’t believe God intended them to be that … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, Same-Sex Marriage
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Reza Aslan Makes a Lot of Sense Defending Islam. The CNN Anchors Sound Like Islamaphobic Bigots.
Author’s note: I’ve edited the title of this post to reflect more accurately the point I wanted to make. Reza Aslan is responding here to this rant by Bill Maher: It’s important to point out that Maher is right: Muslims who engage in … Continue reading
Posted in Religion
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Would We Be Living in a Better World if the Tyrants of the Past Had Never Existed?
When Someone is Driven to Murder, Where Does the Responsibility Lie? It’s been a very long time since someone called me a bleeding-heart liberal, a label that was never complimentary and always carried with it a connotation not simply of … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Religion, Writing
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Everyone Hates Atheists Except Jews And Atheists
Pew has polled Americans about how warmly they feel towards other religious groups. The graph to the left shows the results sorted by political party. It’s not surprising that Republicans really, really don’t like atheists. What’s more surprising is that … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-atheism, Religion
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Writing a Poem is a Confrontation with the Unknowable
It’s been a long time since I believed in a god like the biblical one I learned as a child that I was supposed to love and fear, respect and obey. I’ve written a little bit about why I stopped believing, and I’ve written out … Continue reading
Farid al-Din Attar: A Reading Journal 6
Here’s another quote from The Conference of the Birds: But think of some new pilgrim, some young boy, Whose boldness comes from mere excess of joy; He has no certain knowledge of the Way, And what seems rudeness is but … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Religion, Writing
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One of My Favorite Poems by Saadi of Shiraz
I’ve been thinking about this poem a lot lately, because what it says could easily have been labeled heresy by the authorities of Saadi’s time, which was 13th century Iran, and an accusation of heresy could, conceivably, have gotten him … Continue reading
Farid al-Din Attar: A Reading Journal 5
When I was in my twenties, a friend and I used to talk all the time about how impoverished the English vocabulary for love is, not just in the sense that we use the word love to talk about our … Continue reading
Posted in literature, Religion
Tagged conference of the birds, ilahi nameh, persian literature
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Thanks for the catch! And, I have no idea whatsoever what a rubric's cube would be or would do. But…