Carl Sagan (placa en Pioneer) (Photo credit: trackrecord)
It is understandable that most people find it easy to dismiss agnostics and atheists as complete and utter non-believers. It is true, most of us define ourselves strictly by our lack of belief in the divine. Continue reading
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
“There’s only been one perfect person”
- Christian admonition to not expect imperfection.
“Yeah, and I can only be so many places at once.”
- Me Continue reading
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
It is hard to believe it has been almost thirty years since Shirley Maclaine’s Out on a Limb came out. Her account of her discovery of the New Age movement and the doors it opened for and within her transformed many lives, both directly and indirectly. I have mentioned before how my parents dabbled in the New Age movement, Continue reading
-Fill those pews people! That’s the key! Grab the little ones as well. Hook ‘em while they’re young
-Kind of like the tobacco industry.
-If only we had their numbers.
Cardinal Glick (George Carlin) and Rufus (Chris Rock) in Dogma
Hello Hand of Ananke readers. As promised Sundays will be for discussions about belief in general and faith in particular. In light of this being our introductory post in this feature I thought it would be of interest to talk about introducing faith into someone’s life. Specifically I would like to discuss how one goes about teaching one’s child about it. Continue reading
