Ours Is The Glory

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Christine Noble

Hubble image of MACS J0717 with mass overlay (Photo credit: Hubble Space Telescope / ESA)

I love my conversations with my Dad. They don’t always bring up new truths for me, though they often do, but they are great for dredging up old ones. We both wonder why people focus more on what may or may not come after this life than what we know comes with this one. More importantly we wonder why people choose to take such a limited view of the world we live in. How can people not see how wonderful this universe is without the need for some divine spark starting it. Continue reading →

A Tale of Two Memes

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Christine Noble

I am not a big fan of having to write about a specific issue twice in one week. I hate abusing the proverbial equine once it has shuffled off its mortal coil and such. Every once in a while though someone, or something, sticks in my craw. Maybe the issue is so big, or maybe someone reminds me that they still need an education on it. Such is the case with the following meme. Continue reading →

Go To Meetin’: Ask And Ye Shall Be Answered

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Christine Noble

Venn diagram (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I have never really felt the pull of faith. I have felt the need to belong to something. On occasion I am willing to invest trust and emotional energy in people and ideas I find worth it, but to throw myself blindly into that trust, with nothing backing it up, that just isn’t me. Continue reading →

Go To Meetin’: Hardwired for the High Wire

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Christine Noble

Freedom From Religion Foundation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We non-believers can be a smug lot sometimes. One only needs to watch Bill Maher to understand why some of the gentler, more open-minded believers still feel uncomfortable around us. Continue reading →

Go To Meetin’: The “Religion” of Science

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Christine Noble

I was going to write today about some believers’ insistence on the need to prove the existence of their divine being, whatever that being may be, and how perplexing that is to me. Conversations I have had this week, however, have driven this week’s column in another, though not entirely unrelated, direction. Continue reading →

Go To Meetin’: The Purposeless Driven Life

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Christine Noble

In my discussions with believers about my lack of faith often they resort to the teleological argument for God. “If there is no God,” they will ask me, “what is the purpose of our being here?” Continue reading →

Hand of Ananke

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Ours Is The Glory

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