Felt good making sense out of my own beliefs for a while, but then there is this loneliness that haunts you, I wouldn't come out to anyone, I'm from Zimbabwe, a modern day medieval society; you have no idea, we still get stories of witchcraft in newspapers down here and the ...
religious privilege, and so on. They will not look like a ‘convert’.They will not look like someone who stands up and speaks for their new values like a Christian would. Instead, they would look like someone strongly criticizing the position and power of religion in society. And I think...
Felt good making sense out of my own beliefs for a while, but then there is this loneliness that haunts you, I wouldn't come out to anyone, I'm from Zimbabwe, a modern day medieval society; you have no idea, we still get stories of witchcraft in newspapers down here and the ...
It wasn’t until the late 18th century in Europe that the term “atheism” first started to be used as merely a descriptive term for lack of belief in the monotheistic Abrahamic God. In Western society today, this is how the word “atheism” is most commonly used—it simply means “disbe...
How do you make peace with those who murder babies and celebrate their deaths? Hamas-supporting parents and their children stood by in Gaza, watching the spectacle of Israeli children’s bodies being paraded around [and cheering, rejoicing]. What kind of society allows such evil to flourish?
Regarding what type of society ought to be mastered, the choice procedure is known as politics. Politicians can be involved by this process even a ruling elite’s members in addition to a DEMOCRACY. WHY DO PEOPLE VALUE POLITICS? People’s everyday lives impact. They determine how much cash ...
Albert Einstein was a supporter of humanism and the Ethical Culture Society. He served on the advisory board of the First Humanist Society of New York, and he was an honorary associate of the British Humanist Association. For the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New York Society for Ethical Cu...
In my view — and I think I am not alone in this — the First Principle calls us to live with a radical idea of spiritual equality. But we as a society are nowhere near living up to this call. Too often, we dehumanize — and sometimes demonize — others around us: the rich, the...
@mattbrowne‘s points are valid, in that we do tend to be more irritated by Christians than Wiccans in that we’ve dealt with them integrated so deeply into our society, so much more powerfully and widespread than Wicca, that yes, bias is happening. Some posters on this thread may be ...