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pantheism (n.)
- identification of god with the universe
paranormal (n.)
Relevant Books:
Superstition and Other Essays -- INGERSOLL, Robert Green
The Transcendental Temptation -- KURTZ, Paul
Relevant Articles:
Quotations: Lucia and Norman HALL
Christianity is a Pseudoscience
Religion, Morality and Charlatanism
Pastafarian (n.)
A member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Book:
philosophy (n.)
Relevant Books:
Atheism -- MARTIN, Michael
Atheist Manifesto -- ONFRAY, Michel
Breaking The Spell -- DENNETT, Daniel Clement
Darwin's Dangerous Idea -- DENNETT, Daniel Clement
The Existence of God -- SWINBURNE, Richard
Freedom Evolves -- DENNETT, Daniel Clement
The Influence of Natural Religion on the Temporal Happiness of Mankind -- BENTHAM, Jeremy
The Moral Landscape -- HARRIS, Sam
Science and Ethics -- KURTZ, Paul (editor)
The Portable Atheist
Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
HITCHENS, Christopher
Keywords: atheism religion
Da Capo Press
2007
An Excerpt
"One is continually told, as an unbeliever, that it is old-fashioned to rail against the primitive stupidities and cruelties of religion because after all, in these enlightened times, the old superstitions have died away. Nine times out of ten, in debate with a cleric, one will be told not of some dogma of religious certitude but of some instance of charitable or humanitarian work undertaken by a religious person. Of course, this says nothing about the belief system involved: it may be true that Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam succeeds in weaning young black men off narcotics, but this would not alter the fact that the NoI is a racist crackpot organization. And has not Hamas—which publishes The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion on its website—won a reputation for its provision of social services? My own response has been to issue a challenge: name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer. As yet, I have had no takers. (Whereas, oddly enough, if you ask an audience to name a wicked statement or action directly attributable to religious faith, nobody has any difficulty in finding an example.)"
A Longer Excerpt
postmodernism (n.)
- Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement. (Wiktionary)
In philosophy, postmodernism is associated with cultural relativism and a scepticism about, or rejection of, modernist ideas of objectivity, rationalism, knowledge, etc. In its more radical forms, postmodernism involves the denial of even the existence of objective reality or objective truth and categorically rejects Enlightenment principles. It takes cultural relativism to an extreme, asserting that different cultures have different, socially constructed realities.
Robert M. Price is a member of the Jesus Seminar, a Regional Director of the Council for Secular Humanism and Professor of Biblical Criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute.
See also:
Protestantism (n.)
Relevant Articles:
Quotations: Henry Louis MENCKEN
pseudoscience (n.)
Relevant Articles:
Quotations: Lucia and Norman HALL
Christianity is a Pseudoscience
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