1. Pope Benedict to test secular ground at UN
(Religion/General)

... place often used by people wanting to meditate or for official commemoration ceremonies. The Holy See has observer status in the UN General Assembly but has been accorded the status and voice of a f...

2. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...ay even before the French Revolution had made the connection between atheism and violence clear to any fair observer. Yet these books read as if they came from authors who had never heard of the Reign...

3. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...for you with me, so if each of us tried for these advantages, we’d both end up worse off. Any neutral observer, and you and I if we could talk it over rationally, would have to conclude that the...

4. The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Religion/General)

...oscientist Sir John Eccles, another proponent of the idea, even suggests that “mind” may be the observer in a recursive loop from atoms to molecules to neurons to thought to consciousness ...

5. I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions
(Medicine/Self Help)

...onal consumer of popular psychology, religion, or wellness books. I have attended support groups only as an observer, not as a participant. I have read self-help books only as a critic, not as a seeke...

6. Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists
(Religion/Atheism)

...f many distinct regions with different values of the coupling constants, it is tautologous that intelligent observers will only measure the values which obtain in those regions which are consistent wi...