As a little kid in elementary school, I was obsessed with Greek mythology. In high school I branched out into Celtic and Arthurian lore, and then in college I fell in love with Vikings and Norse mythology, but the pattern is fairly consistent: for most of my life, myth and legend have resonated strongly and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Atheism’
Lefkowitz On The Greek Gods
Posted in Religion, tagged Apollo, Atheism, Athena, Athens, Autocracy, Christianity, Death, Demeter, Democracy, Dionysus, Divination, Divinity, Editorial, Family, Fear, God, Gods, Greece, Guilt, Hellenic Polytheism, Hellenismos, Hera, Heracles, Hercules, Heroism, Hindu Nationalism, Hinduism, Horus, Humanism, Humanity, Humility, India, Intelligence, Isis, Islam, Job, Judaism, Monotheism, Morality, Mortality, Multiculturalism, Newspaper, Old Testament, Omen, Pantheon, Paradox, Philosophy, Polytheism, Religion, Rome, Science, Secular, Skepticism, Socrates, Thales, Theology, Violence, Vishnu, Zeus on March 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Mary Lefkowitz wrote an excellent article for the LA Times a little more than a year ago about the Greek gods that’s well worth reading.
Bring back the Greek gods
Mere mortals had a better life when more than one ruler presided from on high.
By Mary Lefkowitz
October 23, 2007 in print edition A-27
Prominent secular and atheist [...]
Why I Do Believe In God (Sort Of)
Posted in Deity, Epistemology, Film, God, Hell, Judaism, Logic, Skepticism, Yahweh, tagged Agnosticism, Atheism, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Deity, Epistemology, Film, Fossil-Hiding God, God, Hell, Judaism, Knowledge, Logic, Skepticism, Theism, Yahweh on February 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Like I said in my last post, I’m extremely hesitant to just come out and say that I flat-out don’t believe in God in the typical atheist sense. This isn’t hedging my bet; I absolutely don’t believe in hell, I’m skeptical about an afterlife anyway (and even if there is one, I doubt very strongly [...]
Why I Don’t Believe In God (Sort Of)
Posted in God, Islam, Jesus, Joseph Smith, Logic, Mormonism, Mysticism, Neopaganism, Prayer, Prophecy, Psyche, Religion, Science, Scripture, tagged Allah, Apollo, Atheism, Christian Mysticism, Christianity, God, Islam, Jesus, Joan of Arc, Joseph Smith, Logic, Mormonism, Mysticism, Neopaganism, Prayer, Prophecy, Psyche, Religion, Science, Scripture, Sufism, Theism on February 17, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The simple answer is that I just don’t. While I don’t have a conceptual problem with God’s theoretical existence–I’m not actually convinced by the formal logical arguments of atheists because I’m not actually usually convinced by formal logic at all–I simply have a hard time believeing that a being matching the description of most theists [...]
Simply Better Off Without?
Posted in Existence, God, Life, tagged Agnosticism, Atheism, Existence, God, Life, Steve Martin on January 21, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I remember a poignant moment in one of the vignettes from Steve Martin’s book, The Cruel Shoes, in which the narrator tells about how his uncle told him he was sorry that he (the narrator, as a young person) had ever heard of the word “God.” This resonated intensely for me when I first read [...]
Not Writing Everything
Posted in Conversion, Deconversion, Druidry, Faith, Family, God, Jesus, Mormonism, Mysticism, Relationship, Religion, Spirituality, tagged Academia, Agnosticism, Asatru, Atheism, Christianity, Christmas, Church, Conversion, Deconversion, Druidry, Faith, Family, God, Jesus, Mormonism, Mysticism, Relationship, Religion, Spirituality on November 27, 2007 | 20 Comments »
So, the fact that I’m not posting much on here isn’t really indicative of a lack of thinking in the religious/spiritual vein. In fact, I’ve been thinking in overdrive, but not coming to any conclusions and not really going anywhere with it. My brother, Racticas (he comments here somewhat infrequently) is now in [...]
Struggling With Christianity
Posted in Episcopal Church, Faith, Literature, Liturgy, Mormonism, Music, Religion, Theology, Thought, tagged Anglicanism, Atheism, Belief, Blogging, Brainwashing, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Church, Episcopal Church, Faith, Hope, Literature, Liturgy, Mormonism, Music, Religion, Theology, Thought on November 8, 2007 | 28 Comments »
I know I’ve been over this time and again, but it’s been on my mind for weeks, so I’m going to blog about it. I’m just not sure what to do, say, or believe about religion.
I like Christianity. I find it moving, relevant, hopeful, important. I like the Bible, I like Jesus, I like the [...]
Vulnerable
Posted in Doubt, Faith, God, Jesus, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, tagged Atheism, Belief, Christianity, Community, Discipleship, Doubt, Faith, God, Jesus, Religion, Spirituality, Theology on July 11, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I’m trying to work through some things, some concerns and difficult Christianity issues, and I’m not finding an easy resolution to any of it. In the meantime, it’s leaving me feeling extremely vulnerable. Small.
My problem is this- I want to follow Jesus, but I don’t know the right way to do it. I’m looking for [...]
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