I visited my folks this weekend and they introduced me to one of their friends. He's a former Southern baptist from a seriously religious family who grew away from his church in a big way, and is working through his religious history by writing a manuscript about the parts of his religion that didn't make much sense to him. (Why did my folks think ( Read more... )

In my previous post I wrote about how the best explanation for God seems to be "fictional meme". The way that God is described - the vague terms, the shifting definitions, the non-demonstrable, impossible-to-disprove, epistemologically gerrymandered criteria - have none of the hallmarks of credible stories and sound an awful lot like what you'd ( Read more... )