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How Religion Got in the Way — Wait But Why
what religion brings us is not a dogma but a practice. That’s the rich thing it brings us. That’s the significant thing that it brings us, and that the idea of having a spiritual practice is one that’s completely compatible with the idea of being extremely skeptical of dogma; that those two things are not at war. They may be in tension, the way so ... See more
Adam Gopnik • Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith | The On Being Project
How to Live a Happy Life, From a Leading Atheist
David Marchese David Marchese Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouyanytimes.comSpirituality and religion originate in a particular kind of felt experience. These experiences are typically short-lived, surprising and uncontrollable, but they seem, to the person having them, to be highly significant and attractive.
Guy Claxton • Science and Spirituality: 'Effing the Ineffable'
In his book Bad Religion, writer and religious scholar Ross Douthat describes our New Age “God Within” theology as “a faith that’s at once cosmopolitan and comforting, promising all the pleasures of exoticism . . . without any of the pain . . . a mystical pantheism, in which God is an experience rather than a person. . . . It’s startling how little
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