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People Are Using AI to Talk to Jesus. Why It's Controversial

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 01:23:43 +0000

Text With Jesus offers users an interactive experience with a religious deity. In other words, users can text questions to Jesus and get a response. (Premium users can also converse with Satan.)

Tags: #al #llms #religion #weird #wtf

Why Can't We Admit That Religion Is F***ing Crazy? | The Daily Banter

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:00:50 +0000

No, a religious belief doesn’t need to be respected just because it’s a religious belief.

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Why Can't We Admit That Religion Is F***ing Crazy? | The Daily Banter

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:00:50 +0000

No, a religious belief doesn’t need to be respected just because it’s a religious belief.

Tags: #politics #religion

God, Darwin and My College Biology Class - NYTimes.com

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:13:39 +0000

EVERY year around this time, with the college year starting, I give my students The Talk. It isn’t, as you might expect, about sex, but about evolution and religion, and how they get along. More to the point, how they don’t.

Tags: #biology #evolution #imported:pinboard #religion #science

God, Darwin and My College Biology Class - NYTimes.com

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:13:39 +0000

Tags: #biology #evolution #religion #science

The Satanic Temple’s hilarious response to a pro-religion court ruling - Salon.com

Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:33:26 +0000

Last month a judge ruled that religious pamphlets could be distributed in a school district in Orange County, Florida, according to Raw Story. In the wake of this ruling, the Satanic Temple is handing out its own religious literature to Orange County schools: “The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities.”

Tags: #christianity #imported:pinboard #religion

The Satanic Temple’s hilarious response to a pro-religion court ruling - Salon.com

Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:33:26 +0000

Tags: #christianity #religion

Faith in science and religion: Truth, authority, and the orderliness of nature.

Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:14:28 +0000

The conflation of faith as “unevidenced belief” with faith as “justified confidence” is simply a word trick used to buttress religion.

Tags: #faith #imported:pinboard #religion #science #to:fb

Why Fundamentalist Christians Fear Intellectualism - The God Article

Tue, 01 Oct 2013 16:38:18 +0000

Intellectualism invites the constant assessment of the “correctness” of a person's belief system. That's dangerous ground for a fundamentalist Christian. When you confront them on a particular belief you are not only confronting them on an idea that they have held to more rigidly for a longer time than most other folks but you are confronting the very core of who they understand themselves to be. For them, it is on those core beliefs upon which their salvation hangs in the balance, at least in part. Questioning it doesn't just question the thought but, for them, it puts into question a lifetime of holding on tightly to that thought.

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Rowan Williams: 'Persecuted' Christians Must 'Grow Up' | The Bilerico Project

Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:01:47 +0000

Amazing, right? Williams is essentially telling anti-gay Western Christians with a persecution complex to buck up, find some perspective, and get the hell over it.

Tags: #christians #growingup #imported:pinboard #persecution #religion

Measles outbreak tied to Texas megachurch sickens 21 - NBC News.com

Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:09:54 +0000

An outbreak of measles tied to a Texas megachurch where ministers have questioned vaccination has sickened at least 21 people, including a 4-month-old infant -- and it’s expected to grow, state and federal health officials said.

Tags: #churches #health #imported:pinboard #measels #religion #to:fb

Det Missionerande Kopimistsamfundet | English

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:34:24 +0000

* All knowledge to all * The search for knowledge is sacred * The circulation of knowledge is sacred * The act of copying is sacred.

Tags: #copyfight #imported:pinboard #information #kopimism #religion #sweden

Det Missionerande Kopimistsamfundet | English

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:34:24 +0000

* All knowledge to all * The search for knowledge is sacred * The circulation of knowledge is sacred * The act of copying is sacred.

Tags: #copyfight #information #kopimism #religion #sweden

Why Are There So Few Resurrected Corpses in the United States? - Heather Horn - The Atlantic

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:28:17 +0000

I suspect United States is in fact ahead of the African nations in bringing the dead back to life. It's hard to find a good estimate of how many bodies are resurrected in the U.S. each year, but let's go with this vastly oversimplified figure: 92,000. 92,000 is the number of people the American Heart Association estimates are saved in the U.S. each year after their hearts or their lungs have stopped moving, i.e. by CPR. Or let's go with a percentage: 45.3%. That's the success rate in the bottom-quarter of American hospitals in a 2012 study in restoring circulation to a body whose heart has completely flatlined. 14.5% of the bodies treated managed leave the hospital. And that's in the hospitals with the lowest performance. Wait till you see American rates for getting the lame to walk and the blind to see.

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Why Are There So Few Resurrected Corpses in the United States? - Heather Horn - The Atlantic

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:28:17 +0000

Tags: #faith #medicine #religion #to:fb