The following is a prayer that I as an agnostic Christian love to pray because 1) I can say it just to myself if I have trouble imagining God, and 2) it doesn’t really involve statements of dogma, and 3) it’s really about trying to better myself instead of relying on a Flying Spaghetti Monster [...]
Two Ways to Use a Drug
February 8, 2010
Read the context in which an oft-cited quote is set: Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium [...]
To Pat Robertson: On Haiti, the Devil, and the Problem with Answers
January 14, 2010
To Pat Robertson, anyone else at CBN, and other Christians who might be reading: I felt a mixture of deep sadness and white-hot anger when seeing this… I watched Sanjay Gupta interview the president of Haiti (watch from 0:50), and one line that struck me was when Sanjay asked President Preval why he was staying [...]
