18 Apr, 2012
Primitive reptilian brain behaviour obviously manifests itself in Christian and Moslem authoritarian religions. The modern Moslem religion now is doing what the Christians did a few centuries ago when it was the Christians who had much political power. Salman...
18 Apr, 2012
Hell is the alleged abode of Satan and his devilish minions. Those who offend a god with particular ‘sins’ in this life, are destined to spend an eternity of torment in that precinct after death. Hell has many names including Hades, Perdition, Gehenna,...
18 Apr, 2012
It seems to me that the core difference between believers and non-believers is that believers crave certainty and non-believers are comfortable with uncertainty. Believers accept what they are told without sceptical questioning; non-believers are doubtful and question...
18 Apr, 2012
Introduction The dialogue between the priest Religio(1), or the personification of religion, and Budhieman(2), or the personification of reason, takes place on the imaginary island of Samkhya(3) and has been written to highlight the weakness of theological...
18 Apr, 2012
Question: What do people living under dictatorships have in common with members of religious, philosophical or pseudo-scientific cults? And what do these poor unfortunates share with fundamentalist followers of this or that faith? Answer: They don’t need to read...
