I’ve heard from many sources that the book to read for an impartial look into the major religions and their teachings is The World’s Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions by Huston Smith.
The first section of Smith’s book outlines what we can expect the book to be, and what we can expect it not to be. [...]
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I have heard that many people find solace in the Book of Job during difficult times. Having just read it for the first time, I find this inconceivable.
The plot, in a nutshell: Satan is in God’s neighborhood and stops by for a chat. God points out the most righteous man on earth, and as a [...]
So then, what’s left? I’m not an atheist (I know of plenty of atheists who still believe in their share of woo), agnostic doesn’t adequately describe my worldview, and the one term that does describe it is not one I will be using anytime soon.
But, if it does adequately describe my worldview, perhaps it is [...]
As I have said numerous times before in this blog, I do not think that what I say is particularly original. I would be quite surprised to learn that anything I have written here has not been said or written before, more eloquently, by someone else. Therefore, it was no great shock for me to [...]
As I stated before, I have never been of a religious mindset. My parents were married in the Unitarian church, and I don’t believe I ever set foot in a church with either one of them unless it was to attend someone else’s wedding. I have never been baptized, confirmed, or bar mitzvahed, and religion [...]
