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Writings of J. Todd Ring: On “Natural Religion”
Both deism and orthodoxy are cloudy. Experience, in terms of inner experience, outweighs both reason and so-called empirical evidence, since the former can conjecture or rationalize anything, and the latter is only pseudo-empirical, as Hume made clear. Reason and conventional empiricism are highly useful, and not to be dispensed, but
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Angkor Wat: Reflections On Our Modern World
~*~ Angkor Wat is the crown jewel of a 400 square kilometer set of temples and holy sites, set in the jungles of Cambodia. Built as a Hindu temple in the 12th century, later transformed into a Buddhist temple, Angkor Wat alone is the largest religious monument on Earth. That
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Laying Waste To The Religious Right
A few brief thoughts for perspective: “Censorious scrupulosity” – Stephen Toulmin is as witty as he is brilliant. Make it viral (so to speak… Yikes, we will soon have to be censoriously scrupulous in avoiding that phrase, now that the global police state is here): “Is that a touch of censorious
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Religion Explained
Purples ones are the best, die heretics!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Next Level of ‘Own Goal’.
… It is estimated that there was 5 to 12 tons of manure a day on the Ark. Now there was a window on top of that Ark that could be opened — it actually was on the side, not the top, it’s on the side — where they could
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Belief in Unicorns is Cool
Works for belief in ‘gender’ as well. 🙂
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