Are Religious People Happier?
Religion
Religion is born of the same curiosity that led to philosophy and science, but it’s a premature birth due to an impatience for answers. Before people started figuring things out with philosophy and science, people made up a variety of answers, and these became various religions. The articles in this section are on the topic of religion, on various topics within religion, or on particular religions.
Questions that May Never be Answered, Answers that May Never be Questioned
In Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
Is Rebecca Bynum Right? Should Muslims be Denied Freedom of Religion?
Rebecca Bynum’s Misinformed Atheism Bashing
The New Atheism is not so New
The Forbidden Fruit May Have Been a Mushroom
Do various religions, including Christianity, have their roots in the experiences gained from eating psychedelic mushrooms or plants? Could the story of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that Adam and Eve ate of in the Garden of Eden reflect the mind-blowing experiences of people who ate psychedelic mushrooms?
Rebecca Bynum’s Progressive Diminishment of Man
Improving the Ten Commandments
How would you improve on the ten commandments? What would you change, take away, or add? Here is my own attempt at improving the ten commandments. I have modified the first ten, sometimes substantially, and I have added six more for what I’m calling a Humanist Hexadecalogue.
The Value of a Religious Education
An exclusively intellectual education leads by a very obvious process, to hard-heartedness and the contempt of all moral influences. An exclusively moral education tends to fatuity by the over-excitement of the sensibilities. An exclusively religious education ends in insanity, if it do not take a directly opposite course and lead to atheism.
C. S. Lewis: The Catalyst of my Deconversion
When I was a Christian, I read plenty of C. S. Lewis. I read The Screwtape Letters
