My days as an atheist started in Đà Nẵng Harbor on my 21st birthday. I was in what the Navy considered a war zone, and was clearly feeling reckless. It was as good a time as any to stop believing in a benevolent infinite being watching my every move from outer space.
In this time of relative scientific enlightenment, many evolutionary religions are struggling; but religious faith is just fine, thanks. LIKE MANY RELIGIONS, Pastafarianism is a parody religion, only intentionally so. As such, it uses satire to provoke debate over various religious creeds and doctrines of other religions, as a way of pointing out the “absurdity” and lack of “sustaining …
“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American”
Welcome to the premiere edition of Urantian Sojourn Magazine, our latest effort at simultaneously blogging ourselves into oblivion, and regaining some semblance of a life fairly balanced between work and play. Here’s what we have in mind. Our “Table of Contents” below shows you what’s in this issue so far; starting out, we anticipate publishing just the cover story, hoping …
It is the mission of religion to prepare man for bravely, even heroically, facing the vicissitudes of life. Religion is evolutionary man’s supreme endowment, the one thing which enables him to carry on and “endure as seeing Him who is invisible.”
On a billion screens like yours, a billion people are watching the technology of search transforming millions of isolated books into the Library of All Human Knowledge. The old saw has been turned on its axis: a lot of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
“The intellectual factors of religion are important, but their overdevelopment is likewise sometimes very handicapping and embarrassing.” — The Urantia Book In a thrift store recently I saw a framed sign for sale. I didn’t buy it, but remembered it. It said: Life is a test. It is only a test. If it had …
