Do not submit

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  September 18th at 08:45 AM  | 

Do you have enough faith in you religious convictions and your belief in the First Amendment to refuse to submit to the murderous Muslim religious zealots who not only believe, but actually preach, that it is okay to murder innocent people simply because you perceive yourself to be offended by something? I’d like to think I do. My friend Peter Ingemi, also known as DaTechGuy, | Read More »

‘Founding Gods, Inventing Nations’ – The Role of the Culture Myth in Defining Social Legitimacy

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  January 11th at 12:01 AM  | 

WHAT ROLE DO culture myths – the stories civilizations tell about the beginning of law, medicine, arts and sciences, and civilization itself – have in defining a group’s legitimacy within society? In Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam, Will McCants, a Middle East expert at CNA’s Center for Strategic Students and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University, addresses this issue with | Read More »

Irreligion And Irrationality. Don’t Believe The Hate.

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  April 4th at 03:15 PM  | 

When intellectually-oriented atheists or agnostics choose to opine on religious matters, they sometimes tend to surject their own predictably negative views of religious practice into the discussion. This is particularly true when they deign to inform us how rigorously logical they are. Examining two attempts to cast pearls of agnostic or atheist logic before the deeply religious swine demonstrate the predictable vapidity of the hostile | Read More »