... , we have many scientists for whom the following could not be said: "the explanatory power of science worrie[s]those who value... religion." Because of their pre-theoretical worldview science's explanatory power ends up thrilling ... that makes this incoherent for me.7. Weinberg's third source of tension between religion and science is Islamic fatalism, which leads to not a lot of science being done ...

... know that choosing the right friends may have been more important than--or at least the same thing as--choosing the right religion?Rodney Stark's The Rise of Mormonism (2004) is a ... within a larger tradition, say from Prebyterianism to Episcopalianism).Ask any convert to a new religion why he (or she) converted, and he will tell you that he made the change for doctrinal and/or spiritual reasons. ...

... ' and 'political Islam' are merely sophisms and apologia used to obfuscate the truth about Islam proper, which is that this religion "seeks to limit freedoms by marshalling the power of the state in defence of religion," wrote Michael Devolin. "This stratagem is merely the Koran speaking through the mouth of Caesar."--  "Mr. Rahman makes the point ...

Borat helmsman Larry Charles says he intends to "destroy" organized religion with his newest flick, Religulous, starring Bill Maher. "I don't think 'debunk" is ... a kid and got a cavity I had mercury drilled into my teeth. Then, when I got older, they drilled it out—you can do the same with religion." Such mavericks! The fact that it's a Borat-style "documentary" in which dumbasses are strung up by ...

A syllabus for American religion I'm always complaining about the Jesus-lite books that are available in church libraries, book stores and public libraries (our UAPL is impoverished for anything ... somehow I ended up in Wheaton, Il in Kathryn Long's course syllabus for Young Scholars on American religion, History 483, an overview of Christianity in North America from the colonial era to the present. ...

... no less outrageous now than it was then. Take a gander at this disgusting display of anti-religious blather: Imagine having the gall to put curse words in God's mouth? Not to mention the bigoted way he attacks Palin's religion! My guess, you'll search in vain to find an Oliphant cartoon making fun of Obama's religion. This is why they call him Soiliphant... OK, this is why I call him Soiliphant!