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Reviewing the Week
1. I went to the I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be An Atheist talk on Monday. Apparently the guy has a book and a tv show as well, but after his lecture, I don't think I'll be partaking of either one. I was hoping his talk… -
I Don't Have Enough Faith to Not Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist
I'm not really sure why I hit the new weblog entry button. I don't have the slightest idea what I have to say. In all probability, this entry will cut short about four or five lines from this point. But that's ok… -
Can't We All Just Get Along? (No)
Today for my religious studies class, Cemalnur Sargut, a Sufi teacher from Turkey, stopped by to tell us about Sufism. Sufism, real quick, is a form of Islam that believes in submission to God, good works and letting… -
A Secular Sermon
And I'm back. I'm becoming a very strange kind of atheist. For my Intro to New Testament course, we have to take part in debates. My group is arguing that Jesus and Paul preached fundamentally different relig… -
When Worlds Collide: Practical Application
I was, briefly, for one semester, a Religious Studies minor. In spite of my atheism, I've always found religion interesting. This is old ground, I'm just recapping because I currently have the time to dawdle. I'v… -
Scripture
This was the first semester that I took Religious Studies courses. I was expecting something completely different from the classes that I've been taking so far, but, instead, I've come across a new breed of literatur… -
I Know that to Know is Gnosis
As I get further and further into my religious studies classes I get more and more amazed at the wide range of interpretations people have made over a single religious text. Nowadays we have numerous different sects of C… -
Scribbles
So I'm going to reinstate something that I tried about a year or so ago. I'm going to try doing an entry a day. For whatever reason my writing has been feeling shattered. Shook up. Rattled. Derailed. Unsettled. And I wa… -
Bernoulli versus God
I have a problem with how some people apply the concept of cultural relativism. Now, cultural relativism is, simply put, the idea that no person's culture or belief structure is more valid than any other person's.… -
Preachin' in the Pit
Making the shift from Durham Tech to the University of North Carolina has been interesting to say the least. There are so many differences, big and small. Size of the campus, the make-up of the student body, the a…
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