{"id":9288,"date":"2014-06-06T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=9288"},"modified":"2014-11-18T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:18:06","slug":"weekly-links-662014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2014\/06\/06\/weekly-links-662014\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (6\/6\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn speaking of the fear of religion, I don\u2019t mean to refer to the entirely reasonable hostility toward certain established religions and religious institutions, in virtue of their objectionable moral doctrines, social policies, and political influence. Nor am I referring to the association of many religious beliefs with superstition and the acceptance of evident empirical falsehoods. I am talking about something much deeper\u2013namely, the fear of religion itself. I speak from experience, being strongly subject to this fear myself: I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers.<\/p>\n

I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn\u2019t just that I don\u2019t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I\u2019m right in my belief. It\u2019s that I hope there is no God! I don\u2019t want there to be a God; I don\u2019t want the universe to be like that.\u201d (Thomas Nagel, The Last Word)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n

Sorry for the delay everyone; I had missions on the brain.<\/p>\n