A recent editorial in USA Today titled “Give Millennials good reasons to read the Bible” points out the fact that 70 percent of those 18-29 in America believe the Bible should not have more influence on society and that now 19 percent (and growing) of American adults, especially the young’uns, are skeptical of the Bible. Read More
Richard Nelson who sets himself up as the “Commonwealth Policy Center” from Cadiz has written letters to The Murray State News Opinion Editor a few times this semester to expound on Creationism and other conservative with a capital “C” concerns; most recently, the “defense of man-woman marriage.” This time it was the failure of the Read More
Each of the 115 posts I’ve written in the past five months since my blog of the same name as this column “Dispatches from the New Enlightenment” over at wearedone.org began Oct. 20, 2013, is based upon a recent event or commentary regarding the absurdities and cruelties of religion or some scientific report usually pertaining Read More
Once again over at Rachel Held Evans’ blog, our mostly 30-something semi-liberal evangelical Xian friends are struggling with the divisive actions of their more conservative Xian brethren. The folks at World Vision, a large and prominent Xian charity organization, succumbed to conservative pressure and caved in, reversing a decision to “allow” gay couples to work Read More
There are more than 700 different religions in the world today, all with their special claims to knowledge about a spiritual realm, unique origin myths, beliefs how the world really works and guidelines or outright demands for right behavior. This estimate doesn’t include the hundreds more religions of earlier times such as those of ancient Read More
Last week’s The Murray State News Faces and Places series installment featured Cash Willis, senior from St. Louis, Mo., and his preaching to the Monday and Wednesday lunchtime student and faculty traffic on the walkway between the library and the Curris Center. Willis “shares the Gospel” from his park bench, to all who happen by. Read More
It’s everywhere. In the print media, magazines and newspapers, online in blogs, news sources, chat rooms, Facebook discussions, tweets, at speaking presentations and debates: the culture war, secularism vs. religion. It seems like it is new, like it just started around at the millennium or less than a decade ago since the “New Atheist” books Read More
Human evolution. The study of our origins. Paleoanthropology. Biological anthropology. Whatever you want to call it, it’s for real. This is not a competing worldview, a fantasy of apes and monkeys that aren’t made up to satisfy the demands of atheistic Evilution. What we know about human evolution from the fields of archaeology, geology, paleontology, Read More