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Religion and Atheism

Agnosticism and the Unknown

I hope you have read D. Moskovitz's answer on agnosticism. If not, you can find it here .You are right: we will never be omniscient. And

Jan 23, 2011
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2 Mins
Faith and Funding: What Is the Root of the Stem Cell Controversy?

September 2001 -- The current debate over federal funding of embryonic stem cell research raises two basic questions: "Is it morally and

Oct 15, 2010
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Patrick Stephens & David Kelley
6 Mins
The History and Creed of Islam

January 2002 -- Reprinted by permission of the publisher. From The Role of Religion in History, by George Walsh (New Brunswick, New Jersey:

Oct 13, 2010
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George Walsh
10 Mins
Spiritual Values

Objectivists mean by "spiritual values" those values that fulfill the needs of human consciousness. The word "spirit" indeed refers

Sep 30, 2010
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2 Mins
The Decline of the East

March 2002 -- BOOK REVIEW: The Decline of the East What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. By Bernard Lewis.

Sep 7, 2010
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When Is a Fake a Fraud?

May 2002 -- Miss Cleo is in big trouble. In her TV commercials, she offers to tell her callers' fortunes, to divine their problems, and to

Sep 7, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
The Battle for Toleration, and its Betrayal

November 2003 -- This is how the story was told: In 1761, a young French Protestant of Toulouse, Marc Antoine Calas, finding his life a

Aug 29, 2010
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Roger Donway
5 Mins
Allah Bless America!

One year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI arrested six Yemeni immigrants in Lackawanna, New York, for aiding terrorists; the arrest

Aug 29, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Iron Without, Fire Within

Like any story relying on the fantastic, the superhero film has a test: does the fantastic sharpen and enhance the theme and the conflicts..

Jul 1, 2010
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Hugo Schmidt
5 Mins
Darwin Agonistes

I’m never impressed by those studies that come out every so often showing that some large percentage of the American citizenry “does not

Jun 23, 2010
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Hugo Schmidt
5 Mins
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

Jun 22, 2010
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Kenneth Livingston
10 Mins
Is Religion Compatible with Objectivism?

Most major religions have believed in the existence of a supernatural realm, a realm beyond the natural world of physical objects and bodies

Jun 14, 2010
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David Kelley Ph.D
4 Mins
What is the Objectivist view of the art of magic?

Magic and illusion are actions that aim to produce effects that appear to be paranormal or impossible by the laws of logic and nature that

Apr 14, 2010
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Malini Kochhar
2 Mins
The Problems with The Passion of the Christ's Moral Message

March 3, 2004 -- The controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ reflects a deep divide concerning the moral

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Scientology, Seizures, and Science

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..

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
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." So opens the

Apr 4, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
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

Mar 15, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
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

Jul 1, 2005
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Islamism and Modernity; Lou Dobbs is Right

CNN’s Lou Dobbs has come in for criticism for saying something sensible and insightful. It is too vague and too politically correct to call

Jun 10, 2002
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David Kelley Ph.D
4 Mins
9/11 and The War Against Modernity

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

May 1, 2002
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David Kelley Ph.D
10 Mins

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