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God-fearing: how is this a good thing?
I wound up at gotquestions.org when looking up the notion of god-fearing. As an unbeliever it sounds ludicrious to want to be afraid of your own god, unless the whole point of promoting fear is to promote unwavering loyalty and … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, atheism, god, marriage, psychology, relationships, skepticism
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Proof Harry Potter books are good for children
The Harry Potter series wound up being such a divisive force in the world when it was published and still makes headlines today. It’s been lauded as fantastic literature and condemned for promotion of magical thinking — at least in … Continue reading
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Tagged books, culture, Harry Potter, homosexuality, prejudice, psychology
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Atheist Scruples: the business agreement
Today’s question: You’ve agreed verbally to a business deal when you get a much better offer. Do you back out of the deal? Memo to self: email the auto dealer we spoke to yesterday and let him know we went … Continue reading
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Tagged A question of scruples, business, money, poverty, psychology, studies
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Reading Billy Graham’s mail
Billy deals with this question this time around: You preachers are always saying we need to change our behavior and become better people, but I don’t agree. I think we need to learn to accept ourselves just as we are … Continue reading
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Tagged behaviour, bible, Billy Graham, crime, habits, psychology
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Atheist Scruples: do your (jury) duty
Today’s question: You are interviewed for jury duty. It will be a long and tedious trial. Do you pretend to have opinions which will disqualify you? I’d say I don’t have to pretend. I wouldn’t say this to avoid jury … Continue reading
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Tagged memory, psychology, Question of Atheist Scruples, science
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Atheist Scruples: the alibi
Today’s scenario: A good friend is having an extramarital affair. S/he asks you to provide an alibi. Do you? Short answer, I wouldn’t want to have to lie to anyone. I suck as a liar. I’d need to ask a … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness Issues, culture, In the Media
Tagged affairs, books, honesty, love, marriage, partners, psychology, relationships, sex, sociology, trust
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Here we are now, entertain us
I found an interesting article out of the Guardian this week. Psychologists at Virginia and Harvard universities reported on the results of several recent studies that were geared toward testing people on their ability to occupy themselves with no distractions. … Continue reading
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Tagged boredom, music, psychology, society, solitude
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“You are what you eat” – yes, but you don’t eat video games
Fox News reports on two different video games released on the same day, one from Lightside Games focusing on Jesus’ life and the other being the demon haunted Diablo III, a product from Blizzard Entertainment. The timing was not lost … Continue reading
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Tagged games, jesus, psychology, skepticism, video games, violence
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Scientific American has an article about atheists and trust
Specifically how we aren’t generally trusted. According to the article, Will Gervais, Ara Norenzayan and colleagues at the University of British Columbia sorted through the results of several different studies showing how atheists tend to be the least trusted groups. … Continue reading
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Words have power, study finds. The word “God” especially
I don’t know if anything new was discovered by this study in terms of that, but it’s an interesting report on results nonetheless. The study was done at the University of Waterloo by psychologists hoping to track what impact faith-based … Continue reading
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Tagged belief, church, diets, fitness, god, health, jesus, psychology, weight-loss
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