83 Articles tagged with: Religion and Atheism

• The Face of Evil is ISIS

  Islamists have struck again in Europe, this time in Brussels, where bombs at the airport and a metro train today took the lives of 30 people and injured hundreds more, with the casualties climbing as I write. The event has been headline and top-of… Read Article

• A New Beatitudes for the Age of Equality

  With Pope Francis taking a progressive line, it is time to recognize the common premises of Christian doctrine and the egalitarian, identity politics of the progressive left. It is time for an updated Beatitudes for the age of equality.

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• Pope Francis vs. the Cure of Reason

  A young girl was recently interviewed on TV about her encounter with Pope Francis on his visit to the United States. She cried with joy as she described how he touched her on the forehead and offered a blessing. Now, she said, she might get the mi… Read Article

• Objectivism and India

  Atlas Summit 2014 -- Using cultural themes specific to India, Jerry Johnson explores how Objectivism can be more easily promoted and digested within non-Western cultures.

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• Does Islam Need a Reformation?

  One of the common refrains in commentary about the Islamic Middle East, especially since September 11, is that Islam needs a Reformation.

  This analogy with the Protestant Reformation in 16th-century Europe is intended to suggest that a s… Read Article

• Deism

  Question: How does Objectivism respond to the conception of God presented by the Deist school of thought? If a belief in some kind of divine Creator is based on reason, not mysticism, can this be reconciled with an Objectivist philosophy? Read Article

• Agnosticism and the Unknown

  Question: Objectivism rejects the existence of God because it cannot be proven by our senses—in other words, God-believers must bear the "burden of proof," which, of course, they cannot provide. However, adherence to Objectivist philosoph… Read Article

• Faith, Reason, and the Good Life

  We are surrounded by examples, from the sublime to the murderous, that illustrate the importance in human life of the systems of belief we construct and take to heart. Michelangelo painted astonishing images on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,… Read Article

• Bosch Fawstin: Infidel Artist

  America didn’t win World War II solely on the backs of her men and women in uniform. Without the tireless efforts on the home front, there would have been no way to keep our military supplied. So there would be enough steel to build tanks for … Read Article

• The Means and Ends of Islamists

  After each new suicide attack, as innocent blood flows in the streets of Baghdad, London, Madrid, or Tel Aviv, there is a surge of speculation about what motivates terrorists who are willing to give up their own lives for their cause.

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• 9/11 and The War Against Modernity

  Why do they hate us? How could they have done this? What were they trying to achieve?

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• Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Arbitrary

  Question: Why is Objectivism atheistic rather than agnostic?

  Answer:  Objectivism holds that in order to obtain knowledge, man must use an objective process of thought. The essence of objective thought is, first, integration of… Read Article

• Speakers Bureau Interview: John Bechtel

  John Bechtel gave his first public talks for the Jehovah's Witnesses at the age of five. By age nine, he was addressing audiences numbering up to 3,000. At 27, Bechtel reached a crisis of faith and resigned from the Jehovah's Witnesses. Now a pass… Read Article

• God Help Me!

  Description: Religions posit a supernatural realm involving either an impersonal force or a personal god, with many combinations. The earliest forms of primitive religion involved ten common institutions. 

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• American Muslims: Cleaning Their Own House

  March 28, 2003 -- American Muslims must be feeling despair over the news that Asam Akbar, a sergeant serving in Kuwait and an American Muslim, is accused of intentionally throwing grenades into the tents of his fellow soldiers, killing two and inj… Read Article

• How Would Jesus Tax?

  June 11, 2003 -- One Republican is finally making moral arguments to support his tax policies. Unfortunately, they’re the wrong arguments and the wrong policies. Alabama’s Governor Bob Riley has just shepherded through the state l… Read Article

• Monkeys, Men, and Morality

  August 6, 2003 -- August 7, 2003, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great anthropologist Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey (1903-1973). This day deserves commemoration not just because of Leakey's achievements but also because of the polit… Read Article

• Restoring Our World After September 11th

  September 18, 2001 -- As the full impact of the barbaric terrorist attacks of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon unfolded, TV anchors, commentators, and community leaders invoked God and prayer as a means of personally dealing with … Read Article

• Scientology, Seizures, and Science

  January 13, 2009 -- Jett Travolta, the sixteen-year-old son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, died recently of what the autopsy found to be a seizure. The boy had a history of seizures, and unconfirmed reports suggest that his parent… Read Article

• The Iliad and Islam

  June 24, 2004 -- "Sing, oh Goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles, which brought pains a thousand-fold upon the Achaians."

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