Comments on PeaceBang: UU Carnival: Prophetic Atheists

Seems to me that atheism covers a host of sins and...

2007-02-20T11:52:00.000-05:00

Seems to me that atheism covers a host of sins and virtues.

For example, there are plenty of atheists who spend their whole lives in a reactionary anti-religion mindset because of negative experiences with organized religion in early life.

Yet Buddhism, for example, is sometimes said not to be a "real" religion (ha'!) because they don't believe in God, at least not as He is so

Great topic. Would love to add my $0.02. Unfortun...

2007-02-19T15:54:00.000-05:00

Great topic. Would love to add my $0.02. Unfortunately, the Muse/Holy Spirit/Goddess of Inspiration seems to have left me for a while, as she sometimes does -- which is also why my blog has been so quiet lately. (Is that itself a form of atheism?) I'll enjoy reading what everyone else has to say.

CK, I read Joel's entries but he doesn't refer to ...

2007-02-14T09:45:00.000-05:00

CK, I read Joel's entries but he doesn't refer to the Carnival in any of his recent ones, nor does he tag them in that category, so I'm just adding Earthbound Spirit's.

And it looks like I need to give folks more time.....

2007-02-12T15:14:00.000-05:00

And it looks like I need to give folks more time... Joel Monka has another entry. PB, if you have time, maybe you could do some quick'n'dirty summaries of these most recent ones?

Just noting another entry by Earthbound Spirit, wh...

2007-02-12T08:51:00.000-05:00

Just noting another entry by Earthbound Spirit, which points out the ways in which believers of earlier times were called atheists by groups that opposed their vision of god.

Done, Ms.Kitty! And my apologies.

2007-02-10T10:47:00.000-05:00

Done, Ms.Kitty! And my apologies.

Good morning, PB,Just a minor quibble---I am a mat...

2007-02-10T10:43:00.000-05:00

Good morning, PB,
Just a minor quibble---I am a mature woman of almost-advanced years, not a young girl, and would ask you to use "Ms. Kitty", not Miss Kitty, as my moniker. There is another blog out there written by a Miss Kitty (Educated and Poor--a good read) and I don't want our zillions of readers to be confused.

I tried to send this yesterday but got cut off by technical stuff

Jess got excluded...her post is here, so check it ...

2007-02-09T12:56:00.000-05:00

Jess got excluded...her post is here, so check it out!

I think it's important to keep in mind that Adams ...

2007-02-09T12:45:00.000-05:00

I think it's important to keep in mind that Adams was making a theological assessment of atheism, which is to say that he was trying to identify the theological meaning of the conscientious rejection of traditional religiosity. He also picked up on Paul Tillich's observation that God might have withdrawn the power of his name for a period of time in order to help us rediscover that power

I wrote on this yesterday, too, but more from the ...

2007-02-09T12:40:00.000-05:00

I wrote on this yesterday, too, but more from the point of view of how we as Unitarian Universalists (mis)use religious language and let others define god for us.