Category: Magical Thinking
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How The Bible SHOULD Have Been Written
(Note: one in a continuing series). Today’s Episode ADAM & EVE: The Scene: God says he created everything including Adam and a nice place (the Garden Of Eden) for him to live in. He’s filled the garden with fruits and vegetables and animals – everything Adam might want. “It’s all yours, kid,” God tells Adam,…
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How The Bible SHOULD Have Been Written
(Note: one in a continuing series). Today’s Episode ADAM & EVE: The Scene: God says he created everything including Adam and a nice place (the Garden Of Eden) for him to live in. He’s filled the garden with fruits and vegetables and animals – everything Adam might want. “It’s all yours, kid,” God tells Adam,…
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How Did “Do Unto Others” Become “Do What We Say”?
Ya know the game “telephone”? A person whispers something into the next person’s ear — who then whispers what they heard into the next person’s ear and so on until we get to the last person. Usually, the original message gets wildly corrupted into total gibberish which makes everyone laugh when they hear it —…
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This Atheist Has No Quarrel With Jesus; It’s Christians I Have Issues With…
Growing up Jewish in a mostly Christian world (here in America, back in the 60’s) was like living inside a giant non-sequitur. Growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust (I was born in 1959, 14 years after the camps were liberated) added extra non-sequitur-iness. My tribe was hated to the point of genocide by…
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Dear Irony: Enough Already!
I like irony as much as the next guy — probably more than him. But even irony, it turns out, has its limits — or should. Evangelicals praising a man Jesus would despise. The party of personal responsibility literally never taking any. A country racing to open back up for business even as the virus…
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What To Do When Your Imaginary Friend Is A Raging Asshole
We all have a friend or family member who “took to” religion while the rest of us ran from it screaming, our hair on fire. You know, guys whose feeble “Hey, have ya heard the ‘good news’ and can I ‘give you my testimony’?” when they were newbies in the cult turned into full on…