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Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan on Faith, Religion, Tolerance, Moderates, Bible, God, Islam, Atheism, Jesus, Christian Nation
"You have simply declared your faith to be immune to rational challenge. As you didn't come to believe in God by taking any state of the world into account, no possible state of the world could put His existence in doubt. This is the very soul of dogmatism."
atheism  religion  blog  article  culture  science  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Journal of Religion and Society
"The approximately 800 million mostly middle class adults and children act as a massive epidemiological experiment that allows hypotheses that faith in a creator or disbelief in evolution improves or degrades societal conditions to be tested on an international scale. ... the data examined in this study demonstrates that only the more secular, pro-evolution democracies have, for the first time in history, come closest to achieving practical “cultures of life” that feature low rates of lethal crime, juvenile-adult mortality, sex related dysfunction, and even abortion. The least theistic secular developed democracies such as Japan, France, and Scandinavia have been most successful in these regards."
research  article  culture  science  religion  sociology  psychology  crime  statistics  health  evolution  atheism  interesting 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
BLASPHEMING BUSES WILL BURN IN HELL, SAY CHRISTIANS - The Daily Mash
"director of Christian Voice"Any bus which allows itself to be abused in this way will spend eternity in the company of Satan's bus. They will burn alongside gay buses, buses that have had abortions and buses that knowingly took people to see Jerry Springer: the Opera."
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october 2008 by milkmiruku

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