I'd suggest then that your thread title and opening sentence are misleading, since what your really seem to be interested in is what the civil...
You might cite some sources for these claims. What were those "online sources" that you mention? And before telling Christians we don't understand...
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It goes without saying I see. Category1. Convinced at the start that religion=Old Time Religion ; atheism=Old Time Atheism. "As it was in the...
Not exactly. Not the government per se. U.S. nationalism is quasi-religious, and patriotism in general has rudimentary religious aspects. The...
Or can at least plausibly be characterized as such. Very good. Nationalism has quasi-religious aspects, especially when directed against common...
There are a great many secular organizations that aren't religious. Why not? First of all,they lack an important element of religiosity: a...
Non-sequitor.Lots of folks--most atheists and agnostics I know, even those who meet regularly to discuss religion--are just atheists and...
I'm all for dictionaries. They facilitate a common frame of reference. As I pointed out, the dictionary you used provided a pretty good first...
Absolutely nothing!
(2) bureaucratic expansionism and factional rivalry within the ChurchThe Church didn't consider witches to be a big deal until the fifteenth...
After being to some gatherings of the Rainbow Family I had a vision that when we die, we'll all go to the Great Gathering in the Sky, where...
I think you may be over-working Webster's. Definitions aren't descriptions of absolutes in Plato's heaven. They aren't right or wrong, but only...
Good for you! Atheists remain most disliked religious minority in the U.S. Why Are Americans Still Uncomfortable with Atheism? Why some people...
I might point out that not all theologians are into the omni-this, omni-that concept of God. Process theology takes Occam's razor's approach to...
I'm always impressed by evidence of delicate conscience in any human. I suspect that most people, Christian, atheist, or other, wouldn't do as...
Continuing from the previous post, those major factors launching the witch craze in Europe after 1484: (1) insecurity generated by major social...
You've been sharing with us these details of your personal life for some time. Do you do this (as I sometimes do) to get things off your chest or...
I have some, but I'll present them in installments. Very appropriate for Halloween! This is the kind of topic most folks don't know much about,...
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