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Thomas Jefferson’s Bible Rejected the Supernatural Jesus in Response to the ‘Stupidity’ of Those Who Deified Him

By Gordon Haber

…, was purposefully ignored. The Jefferson Bible: A Biography Peter Manseau Princeton U. Press September 29, 2020 Jefferson then pasted these texts into a blank book and titled it, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. His idea was to present Jesus’s teachings in what he saw as their purest form—separated from “the dross of his biographers” in order to better understand “the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of man.” The…

Dear Scientists: Please Stop Bashing Free Will!

By John Horgan

…tudies, “but the present results suggest that many laypersons do not yet appreciate that possibility.” Theologians have proposed that science still allows faith in a “God of the gaps,” who dwells within those shadowy realms into which science has not fully penetrated, such as the imaginary time before the Big Bang banged. In the same way, maybe we can have a free will of the gaps. No science is more riddled with gaps, after all, than the science o…

‘The Quiet Damage’ Details the Heartbreaking Effect of QAnon on Five American Families — But Critical Questions Linger

By Susannah Crockford

…ildren; making their adult children suicidal; getting sick from taking inappropriate medications or leaving ailments untreated; and even getting committed to psychiatric wards. Cook shows how many Americans have been affected, from all walks of life, men and women, Black and White, young and old. What united these seemingly normal yet disparate people was that they liked how QAnon made them feel. By laying bare the emotional manipulation of conspi…

Eclipseville, USA: The Birthplace of ‘Little Green Men’ Proudly Hosts The Point of Greatest Eclipse

By Matthew Bowman

…on the universe must always bear exception. While Hopkinsville’s boosters promise that the town has enough bed-and-breakfasts and cell phone towers to transform the eclipse into a comfortable tourist experience, there is a fundamental strangeness to the whole affair that no amount of merchandizing can fully defang. That it’s hard to reduce the weirdness of things like the eclipse hasn’t stopped Hopkinsville from trying. More than a half-century a…

Religion or Insanity? Two Upcoming Murder Trials Will Ask the (Burning) Question

By Joseph Laycock

…s are deemed religious when their lawyers make insanity pleas. Whatever happens in the trials of Dobson and Christensen, let us hope for a more logically consistent approach to this problem. Ad-hoc definitions and fuzzy logic are the natural allies of hegemony, not justice….

I Owe, Therefore I Am: Why Struggling Against the Banks is a Holy Obligation

By Peter Laarman

…25), in which all concentrated power and wealth is to be dismantled, all expropriated land is to be restored, and all other forms of debt peonage are to be abolished. Whether historic Israel ever fully implemented Sabbath and Jubilee prescriptions is beside the point: Sabbath and Jubilee remain moral economy touchstones for the prophets, for Jesus, and for us. Thus Isaiah to his bankers in the eighth century BCE: “The spoil of the poor is in your…

Gay Suicide and the Ethic of Love: A Progressive Christian Response

By Eric Reitan

…fight. If someone had pressed into his fingers at that pivotal moment the phone number for The Trevor Project, he might reach out and hear a voice of reassurance, a voice that gave him hope for life by, in part, repudiating the so-called biblical teaching that who he is amounts to an offense against God. If he’d had a sense of belonging to a community that embraced him for who he is, maybe his hope wouldn’t be so fully shattered. But while other…

Missouri Pastor Goes Viral on Gawker: ‘Separation of Church and Hate’

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…out each of them? My most recent book, Preaching After God, is written for progressive preachers who are trying to find ways to effectively communicate with those who increasingly identify as “the nones,” i.e. those who aren’t sure what to make of God and/or religion, including those who believe in God some of the time, or none of the time, or all of the time; which I tend to think includes all of us some of the time and some of us all of the time…

Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist

By Lauri Lebo

…t me the link to the comedian’s message, I eagerly clicked on it. I was surprised when I saw this wasn’t a clip of his latest hysterical stand up, but an essay he penned for the Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blog. The topic of his essay was how he came to be an atheist. The whole piece is here. While there is humor in the piece, it’s actually more of a sweet thoughtful response to all the people who ask him and other atheists why they don’t beli…

A Valentine for the World…and for the Church I Left

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…s and trembles. I still listen for God’s voice. I don’t hear Him in the TV prophecy evangelist who preaches around the clock at my mother’s house. He says, “World War III” with ecstasy, thinking of the soon coming of our Lord. I don’t hear Him in my students’ papers who give me guided tours of the Roman Road in 2.5 double-spaced pages of eighteen-year-old certainty parroting their parents and their youth pastors, and I know they are “giving testim…