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    Isn't religious indoctrination a bit like advertising?

    Most everyone I know hates TV advertising. It breaks the continuity of what you are watching. Yet, companies spend inordinate amounts of money on it. A 30 second spot in the Superbowl cost over a million dollars. Often, kids don't particularly like religious education (indoctrination). It...
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    Couldn't heaven just be the desire to escape a world in which suffering is all to...

    ...common? Even thought they appear very different on the surface, Buddhists and Christians agree that life involves suffering. The Christians explain it by a "fallen world", whereas the Buddhists say the cause is selfish craving. However, we all agree that life does contain suffering. In the...
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    What did Adam and Eve use for toilet paper in the Garden of Eden?

    I am assuming that they shared the same way of removing waste from their bodies that, coincidentally, other mammals do. So, what did they use. Also, for all of you Intelligent Design people out there, I think a rectum isn't the most intelligent way of eliminating solid waste. The designer...
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    What do you think of this reflection?

    I was asking a question yesterday, basically comparing God to Santa Claus, arguing essentially that when the idea of a big, jolly protector is no longer logically viable, that we adults simply redefine God in a very nebulous way, giving Him all kind of strange and magical attributes. One of the...
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