Religion
Religion - as Natural as Cows?
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Yet another good TED video about the “design” of modern religions as a case for studying all religions through a scientific lens:
Valentines Day in India
Saturday, February 16th, 2008My mom is, aside from an exceptional gift giver, a lover of history and culture. So this Valentine’s Day I gave my mom a different sort of gift. I had someone in India call her - from India - to give her a history lesson on the history of Valentines Day in India and it’s […]
Ideas to die for
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Dan Dennett talks about toxic memes and their virus-like ability to wipe out entire cultures. Dennett’s assertion that memes are, in some cases (communism, capitalism, Islam, Catholicism, and many more), essentially deadly parasites is an interesting perspective.
As interesting as Dennett’s ideas are, I tend to take a more simplistic view. While memes may be wiping […]
The Tomb of Jesus
Monday, February 26th, 2007According to this
article, a documentary that will air on the Discovery Channel March 4th, will claim to have discovered the burial site of Jesus. The Jesus. Not surprisingly, there has already been a lot of criticism of this finding, despite none of the critics having yet seen it.
How can such a claim be […]
Under the Banner of Heaven
Monday, February 5th, 2007I finished Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer about two weeks ago. This was a disturbing book that covers a history of Mormon fundamentalism as a background to the […]