Apatheism

There’s a very definite way in which my atheism is actually apatheism.
Quoth the Wikipedia:
Apatheism (a portmanteau of apathy and theism/atheism), also known as pragmatic or critically as practical atheism, is acting with apathy, disregard, or lack of interest towards belief, or lack of belief in a deity. Apatheism describes the manner of acting towards a [...]

Friday Religious Wisdom 8/8/08: The Bodhisattva Vow

I’m a big fan of ZBS Foundation, a great nonprofit art foundation that has, since the early 1970s, produced weird, wonderful, mystical fantasy and science fiction audiodramas. Sure, sometimes there’s woo-woo elements that rub me the wrong way (particularly in their earlier stuff), but I still love it. They have two main series: Jack Flanders, [...]

A thing that amuses me: language

Most people involved in the Great Debate over the existence of God never stop to really consider how eurocentric the whole discussion is. We are still, after all these years, rehashing arguments all centered on a very human creation — specifically, the weird Frankenstein monster that was stitched together from various bits of Jewish doctrine, [...]

A post of very little import

Before I begin the dreary process of geting myself put together for another day at work (on a day I just want to be home, or at a coffee house, writing), a few small things:
Firstly, anyone waiting breathlessly for the next part of the story of my time with Evangelical Christianity, well, you’ll have to [...]

Scripture as a mirror for your heart

Pat Condell has a few things to say about scripture:

There’s some good stuff in there, but I love, in particular, this argument:

Scripture depends on interpretation because it is so ambiguous
The way you choose to interpret reveals who you are in your heart

Which all I can say to is, yes, yes, yes. [...]