Monthly Archives: November 2011

Letting Go of Jesus

Let’s pretend the year is 1757 and you have just come away from reading a new treatise by David Hume called an “Enquiry concerning Miracles.”  Let’s assume you are a believing Christian who reads the Bible daily, as your grandmother … Continue reading

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Robert Ingersoll: God and Man in Peoria

‘The public’ is a very strange animal, and although a good knowledge of human nature will generally lead a caterer of amusement to hit the people right, they are fickle and ofttimes perverse.” P. T. Barnum   Robert Green Ingersoll … Continue reading

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Spiritual Libertarians? An Essay on Make-Believe

The original version of this essay appeared in Free Inquiry.   A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds back to religion. – Sir Francis Bacon   Two books published in the same … Continue reading

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Spirituality and Other Salads

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this essay appeared in SOMA Review   What do the late Antony Flew, allegedly the world’s most famous convert to deism, and the third century BCE author of the book called Ecclesiastes have in … Continue reading

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Killing “Humanism”: Definition by a Thousand Cuts

It is a — most — provoking — thing,’ Humpty said at last, `when a person doesn’t know a cravat from a belt!’ `I know it’s very ignorant of me,’ Alice said, in so humble a tone that Humpty Dumpty relented. … Continue reading

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The Anachronisticon of Plato

Being newly translated out of the original Dalmatian based on Cyrillic manuscripts thought to derive from Greek or perhaps Ethiopic sources.  We’re not sure.    By Alistair Mainly-Bluster, MA (Oxon.), CPA (Leeds) Scene:  Somewhere, not in the forest. Characters:  Socrates, … Continue reading

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