If you’ve been reading AgnosticMom for a long time then you know about my position on morality and ethics. While most religious people think morality comes from their god and some non-believers think it is purely a social construct, others of us (including myself) believe that humans have an innate moral sense which is [...]
I am reposting a related article I first wrote here, that later appeared on www.clubmom.com.
America In Decline?
During a recent airing, talk show host Dennis Prager spoke to a man who apologized to his son for “giving a worse America to you than my father gave to me.”
A worse America? This wasn’t a new concept [...]
They’re sometimes called Mirror Neurons, or Monkey-See-Monkey-Do Neurons. According to a neuroscientist I am watching at a science convention right now (watching the video, anyway), there is a subset of neurons that fire when, for example, we get poked with a needle. What we now know is that these same neurons will also [...]
My article is up on the Humanist Network News! Click here to read it.
In fact, the article may relate in some way to a comment/question that Angel posted last week. Angel: If you are still here, the article I linked to may interest you. I do plan to address your specific [...]
I’d like to respond to Dan, who has been in the midst of a conversation with Dudley on this blog. I am copying Dan’s last comment where he quotes Dudley, which I have put in italics, and then gives his response. If you struggle with the lack of context, you can see the [...]
I am FINALLY getting around to a subject that a reader, Dan, requested we discuss. In a comment Dan said:
I’ve had some time to read some of the earlier posts. I’m interested in the idea that “nature is all there is”. [I’m thinking, nature = the physical world] If I understand post #8 correctly, [...]
This week’s installment of the Humanist Network News is out today and includes my article, The End As We Know It.
I quoted two AgnosticMom readers who contributed to the discussion about death in the comments section. Since it would have broken the flow of the article to name them, I wanted to [...]
Perhaps “arbitrary” was the wrong word to use when I wrote last month’s article for the Humanist Network News.
Ben is right. Religious leaders did (do) not just throw a dart on the wall to randomly pick rules of conduct. But many of the rules sure seem arbitrary, especially when you see headlines like [...]
Have you been following the on-going discussion in my earlier post, A System For Morality? It’s good to know we have some very educated and thoughtful readers here.
We’ve gone into some more complicated specifics and I feel I the need to break my system down into its smallest parts. Please excuse [...]
I realized I needed to get this post up when I saw that Gregg 100 is already commenting on it. Hifi has also responded back to him, but they’re having to do it in the previous blog entry.
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