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Welcome to the Carnival of the Godless!!
Today is Sunday, June 11th. I am your host - The Atheist Mama. ;-)
We have a lot of great submissions today. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have!
Our first submission was written by Zachary Moore over at Goosing the Antithesis. He writes of a project that was taken on by the Atheist Spy. There are some pretty good points made here.
Is Atheism a Spiritual Orientation?
…some people are just born religious, and others are not- the obvious analogy is that of sexual orientation, and which the Atheist Spy refers to as a “spiritual orientation.”
Next we have a post written by “Agnostic” over at The Agnostic Reader. This is a great, short read. Agnostic discusses why he considers himself agnostic, and what he feels is more important than the worship of a possible God.The Irrelevance of God
Is there a God? Who cares?
The next submission comes from Richard over at Philosophy, et cetera. Here, he offers an interesting twist on “The Golden Rule.” Make sure you read the fascinating comments that follow.The Plutonium Rule
We’re all familiar with the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” It famously suffers from the problem that others might have wildly different preferences from you. This has lead some to propose the Platinum Rule: “Treat others the way they want to be treated.” That seems an improvement, though of course you can’t give everyone what they want, and doing so wouldn’t always even be good for them (say when people have ignorant or self-destructive desires). Still, I think the underlying idea here could be captured even better by what I will call - for want of a more sensible name - the Plutonium Rule…
Now we have a post over at Paul’s Tips. Paul talks about how intelligent people are conned, everyday, all over the world. He makes some great points! Religion isn’t mentioned in this particular post, but it’s safe to say that the same ideas can be applied.The easiest way to fool smart people
Most smart people have a hidden weakness and it’s that they’re absolute suckers for anything that sounds clever.
This is an interesting entry sent in by Steve at the Speculative Catholic. Apparently there is a race to get to the top of Technorati’s Archaeology blog list. The race is between an Evangelical and a Skeptic (there - a link for each of you :-).Claude vs. Martin
This post won’t affect the outcome either way, having an equal number of links to both sites, but I also blogrolled Claude to give him a bump. Why not do the same?
The next post was submitted by Chris Hallquist over at The Uncredible Hallq. As stated in the beginning of his post, Chris offers a summary and some commentary on a debate between William Lane Craig and Bart Ehrman on the evidence for the resurrection. He links to the debate, which is a pretty lengthy .pdf file. Thanks for the summary Chris!!Craig-Ehrman debate
Ehrman began by explaining that the gospels are not ideal historical sources. They were written decades after the fact by noneyewitnesses. Ehrman describes in some detail how oral traditions were circulated, emphasizing just how many hands a story might have passed through before finally getting written down.
Our next submission comes from Ebonmuse over at Daylight Atheism. He discusses how most of humankind is helplessly dependant on a certain substance. Can you guess what it is?Fossil Fuels
Nevertheless, our technology has a weakness. Like the biblical King Nebuchadnezzar’s vision of a greatstatue with a head of gold and feet of frangible clay, there is a vulnerable point upon which the whole system depends.
Next, J.A. Bartlett over at Best of the Blogs talks about how our planet is treated as a rental apartment. How would things here be different if we treated the planet Earth as a home purchase instead??The Screen Door and the Apocalypse
Remember the apartment you had in college? The one with the toilet that ran all the time unless you jiggled the handle just right? The one with the screen door that always got stuck? You could have fixed the toilet or the screen door with a couple of dollars’ worth of materials and half-an-hour’s time, but you probably didn’t. You weren’t going to live there forever, so what difference did it make?
The next entry comes from GrrlScientist at Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted). She talks about how her Catholic neighborhood celebrated the Eve of The Rapture! $100 says that her neighbors are all still there…The Rapture of the Week
666? The Mark of the Beast? The End Times? Or is 666 the emergency number for the local fire department?
Next is a post that was submitted by Jon Swift at Jon Swift. He is talking about Ann Coulter and her shameless appearance on The Today Show to promote her book, Godless. He discusses how Ann attacked the widows of 9/11 for enjoying their position in the spot light.Ann Coulter Tackles the Menace of Widows and Grieving Mothers
Coulter is understandably frustrated at how the liberal media fawns over these women and hangs on their every word, while she has struggled to get her message out through the occasional television appearance, talk radio, college campus tours, her syndicated column, her website and her bestselling books.
Interestingly, and absolutely coincidental, our next entry comes from Modem Butterfly at the Neural Gourmet | Feed Your Brain where she begins with her own thoughts on Ann Coulter. She goes on to discuss how the Left is trying to “out-god” the Right lately.You say ‘godless’ like it’s a bad thing: politics and religion don’t mix
Mixing religion with politics has been a great way for the GOP to get votes, but it’s been a disaster for our nation. Why the Democrats seem to wish to join this healong rush to theocracy is beyond me.
The next entry is a hysterical piece from Mark over at the skwib. He talks about the unfortunate sectarian violence erupting between the Pastafarians (satire, of course).Pirates, Vikings and The Lost Boys
Like other Pastafarians, they believed that the universe was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But while other worshipers thought it was the declining number of pirates that has caused the increase in global warming,
hurricanes and earthquakes, Dr. Tundra had been preaching that, in truth, it was a lack of Vikings.
Noell, over at Agnostic Mom talks about a recent experience at a local wine bar and bistro. Was her experience about the wine? The music? Chemicals in her brain? Or was it God?Spirituality At Your Favorite Alcohol Distributing Venue
It was one of those experiences that will mean less to you as you read about it on your computer. You were not in the moment, but at the time, my heart swelled up to my throat and I felt how incredible it is to exist.
The next entry was submitted by hell’s handmaiden. The maiden talks about something very evil, and absolutely harmful. You’ll just have to go and read for yourself…The Five Letter Word
It is worse than the four letter words, and the four letter combos and permutations. It cuts deeper and infects the wound. Carlin’s list, original or revised, has nothing on this five character, two syllable utterance. Yet the FCC
doesn’t bat an eyelash.
Last, but not least, this entry comes from Greensmile at The Executioners Thong. This is an excellent post about gambling, and how we seem to belong to a “wagering species.” This is a great read!Something odd about playing the odds
I can’t quite put my finger on the nature of the error that lets us think we can manipulate the unknown. I suspect it is founded upon a less detectable error that makes us want to have control when the critical information is unavailable.
I hope that you enjoyed the submissions! Leave a comment and let us know what you think!!
on June 11th, 2006 at 9:29 am
Thanks for hosting, Cassandra. I live for a few kind words.
on June 11th, 2006 at 10:02 am
Nice edition of this old godless carnival! And at a new (to me) blog. Even better!BTW: I tried to leave trackback but my software said your trackback URL was unsuccessful. :-(
on June 11th, 2006 at 10:20 am
Thanks for coming by greensmile!
TNG, thanks for letting me know about the trackback issue. I’m thinking that I’m going to switch to WP soon, so hopefully that problem will be fixed.
on June 11th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Good job on this carnival-but I’m having trouble viewing the post. Parts on the left hand side are getting lopped off (is this maybe and Internet Explorer problem?)
on June 11th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
I think Ann Coulter is more of a second-rate comedian than any kind of pundit.
on June 11th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
Chris, thanks for pointing it out. It may be an IE thing (FF isn’t showing it, and I don’t have IE installed on this computer) but I made some changes to the post. Let me know if it’s still happening to you.
on June 11th, 2006 at 10:54 pm
~~ Moved here from another post by Cassandra ~~
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Hi Mike, just posted to the “Is Atheism a Spiritual Orientation” link then noticed it was an old post. Mind if I reprint the comment that I left? It went:
Good reasoning, but I’d want to take a look at a couple of the assumptions.
I’d say the distinctive tenet of Christianity is that Jesus was “the Christ” - the Savior. Belief in a Creator is shared, for example, by Jews and Muslims.
I think you hit the nail right on the head in noting that science really describes how the universe works, even when it phrases questions in terms of “why.”
Science can’t answer why anything at all even exists. But I’m not convinced that asking “why” presumes an interest in purposive deities.
Replacing “why” with, “how is it that…,” suggests what I mean. How is it that the being of anything is at all? The Fact is. Science comes along after the fact trying to sketch the pieces, describe how they fit together, and predict events.
So although science can’t peer into the facticity of facts, so to speak, I’m not sure that this makes this question of, “Why facts?” meaningless or necessarily entangled with belief in supernatural entities or forces.
on June 12th, 2006 at 2:01 am
How did I not know about this carnival before?
Thank you all fellow godless, for making me feel a lil less alone in this world :P
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on June 21st, 2007 at 12:25 am
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