Now that Kate Kelly and the Ordain Women’s movement have, for the most part, concluded their high-profile run at the LDS religious oligarchy – having managed to momentarily make direct and predictably mortal contact with the corporation’s particularly low-hanging, power-ceiling fan – we’ve all had a chance to reflect on what any of it…
This is a futuristic, sci-fi type of hypothetical, that I’ve put forward on more than one occasion. But I’d be interested to hear what some of you might think about the possibilities. It has become increasingly apparent that computers will eventually attain to some higher form of, autonomous, artificial intelligence – possibly blurring…
With the advent of the American Atheists 2014 Convention, in Salt Lake City, Thursday, April 17th, to Sunday, April 20th, there have been many heated discussions – most notably in the comment sections, following stories run in the Salt Lake Tribune, focused and following up on the Atheists of Utah, and the American Atheists…
Just so we’re all on the same page – and before fielding any arguments against it – I’d like to present everyone with the chance to peruse a transcript, from the Philosophy Department of New Hampshire’s own Saint Anselm College, of ANSELM’S ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT. (In it’s original form – translated by Jonathan Barnes.) From the…
God is an abstract concept, who’s very existence as a concept is as enigmatic, as it is problematic. But there are only a handful of books in the world that purport to be the “revealed word of god.” And as such, it is easy to see how they can exert undue influence, in imposing…
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