Why do many people find religion unappealing? Why do so many – even many who call themselves Christians – believe in evolution, preferring science over religion? Did you happen to catch CBS Sunday Morning earlier today? As part of the lead-in to Halloween (presumably), there was a feature about hellfire. (You can watch the segment below.) In it, a Baptist …
Church Chat
Last week, boys and girls, we closed with the mention of the Bible’s compatibility with science. If you missed the sermonette, it is preserved here on this blog with a posting date 7 days prior to this one, but for ready reference, we were expounding on this general (and, unfortunately, true) subject: The #1 cause of atheism is religion. Religious …
Church Chat
I am often struck, as I suspect you are too, by how commonly people accept things as established fact without the due diligence of personal study and investigation. On the subject of faith it is no different. And that is true pretty much across the board. It applies equally to the faith people have in science and the doctrine of …
Church of the Infinite Chasm
This past week I ran across someone who is surely one of the most articulate advocates of atheism on the planet, one Jaclyn Glenn. She is an astute observer of lots of stuff: she is in med school, so science is on her radar screen, as is Christianity, her former religion and the religion still practiced by her family; and …
Church of the Infinite Chasm
In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Legend has it that people thought Columbus’ voyage was doomed, destined to sail right off the edge of the flat earth. That popular notion isn’t quite true; for centuries before 1492 people had largely accepted the spherical shape of the earth. Many religious leaders of Columbus’ day (and earlier) not only …
Hey Church Ladies! (and Gentlemen!)
It’s Sunday, time for another uplifting sermonette from the Church of the Infinite Chasm. Our mission is, admittedly, an exercise in swimming against the current. After all, people have by and large accepted as fact that evolution is how life in all its varied forms got where it is today. Those people include (according to surveys) a majority of Christians …
Come, All Ye Pew-Fillers
Yes, all ye faithful, it’s time for another installment of the Church of the Infinite Chasm, the Internet mega-church which dares to question the sacred religion of Evolution and its most holy beliefs. Like most regular churches (98% of whose members couldn’t find Obadiah or Zephaniah or Colossians if they had to, or turn to any specific chapter and verse …
got church?
The Editorial Department here at Medical Examiner world headquarters reports they haven’t offended anybody since late last month (Jan. 30, “Where’s the bone?” see below), which means they’re slackers. Any good editorial department (especially one that’s capitalized, like ours is) should be regularly churning out highly opinionated opinions. And so, without further ado: Forgive us for pointing out the obvious, …