This Sunday Many believe religion helps manage anxiety, but what’s the evidence? What’s the evidence that anxiety and insecurity turn people to religion? by Tomas Rees Appearing Sunday, September 16th, 2012 Next Sunday What is the point of naturalistic ritual? …
Read More– by B. T. Newberg Are secular nations lost without religious faith? Phil Zuckerman suggests not. Yet the secular may still have something to learn from the religious. The study Zuckerman’s 2009 study, “Atheism, Secularity, and Well-being”, analyzes a host…
Read MoreThis Sunday Are secular nations hives of social chaos? Can they learn anything from religious nations? What secular nations can learn from religious ones, by B. T. Newberg Appearing Sunday, September 9th, 2012 Next Sunday Many believe religion helps manage…
Read MoreRecently on Livejournal I wrote a response to a post someone else wrote about proposed experiments to try to “prove” the objective existence of Otherkin. These experiments ranged from Kirlian photography to try to get pictures of phantom limbs, to…
Read MoreWhat can a naturalist celebrate in September? Of special note this month is Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar (illustrated as a comic strip here). Starting in September, things begin to get interesting. Check out this month’s Naturalistic Traditions at Patheos.com.
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