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Category Archives: belief
Faith: Central
My writings and jottings since 1995 on faith had spread around K. and have further spread around among my blogs. I want all pk posts gathered here whichever domain they first appeared in. I have important clarifications to add today … Continue reading
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Belief in Evidence
Recreating (and advancing) pk’s censored domains: Macroinformation.org & Knatz.com / Teaching / Society / Social Epistemology / Belief / @ K. 2004 12 12 Belief in Evidence Mission: to rate the role of evidence in belief systems I invite you … Continue reading
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Didactic Magic
The movie Agora shows a Christian fire-walking as a miracle proving faith. Arthur C. Clarke made a TV documentary on the subject offering a host of natural, scientific explanations. I just cited a Straight Dope post on the subject (within … Continue reading
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Prayer
Prayer has been an important subject in our lives, for millennia. Prayer has certainly been an important subject in my life: though not in the last few decades. Knatz.com had relevant modules, censored along with everything of mine by the … Continue reading
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Hitler Wins Again!
Jesus got sandbagged by the priests of his day. And the priests got aided by the secular forces. The Temple of Jerusalem was ruled as a hierarchy. God was supposed to be at the top but of course the Jew’s … Continue reading
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A Million Priests
If a million priests say god is this or that, does that make it so? Does god ever get to speak? In the Christian story God sent Jesus to speak, but the priests wouldn’t let him. Will the Christians let … Continue reading
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Circle of Faith
The phrase “circle of faith” has occurred in several pk modules, posts: in one of faith, for example. I’ll expand here: Religion is a circle of faith. Members rehearse, agree, on the group’s certainties, God’s correct name is Jehovah, the … Continue reading
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Belief in Santa Claus
1997 Christmas Santa Claus has been an important metaphor at my home page all along. I first developed it in my module on Survival: Social vs. Biological. Around the same time I made more points in a special Christmas message. … Continue reading
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Piety
There is religious piety, there is also religious hypocrisy. There is secular piety (patriotism, for example). There is also secular hypocrisy. To make a point pk often pretends to take some belief literally. (If you know my theory of Macroinformation … Continue reading
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Asecist
I am an asecist. Come again, pk? Asecist. I just invented the word. It’s based on the word atheist: literally, etymologically “without god.” But I do not mean that I am without god. On the contrary, I’ve been working in … Continue reading
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