I’ve said quite a bit about my agnosticism in regard to religion or the supernatural. I’ve pointed out what I believe is irrefutable evidence that, throughout history, organized religion has been responsible for some of the largest offenses to humanity .
Yet, on a personal level I have seen many examples where religion has helped people. [...]
I had a conversation recently. The subject was the curious nature of what bothers people. It seems odd to me, particularly in regard to the public at large, the things that do and do not bother people.
I read an article this morning, Stumbled to me by my wife’s long time friend Sarah. The article is [...]
I was recently thinking about my days as a music student in Jackie McLean’s African-American Jazz Studies department at Hartt. I’m not sure why exactly. It might have something to do with recently reviewing my transcripts in the process of applying to graduate school (not for music). A great deal of the non-music education in [...]
I’ve given a fair amount of thought to death.
It isn’t something I talk to other people about very often, death, so I can’t say I really know very much about what other people think. It does seem to me that there is a lot of denial. Religion attempts to soothe our worried minds with a [...]
Kristin loaded the DVD, which arrived from Netflix after much anxious anticipation… An intelligent and satirical look at fundamentalist religion… A focus on the politics of religion… What could be better?
Since this is MY blog – and I reserve the right to say whatever I want – I’ll tell you, briefly, what my own feelings [...]
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