NPR recently reported on a Gallup poll, which showed Americans’ faith in organized religion and religious institutions has declined.
Posts Tagged ‘God’
July 19th, 2012
The “New New Atheists”
posted by Candice Scharf
April 5th, 2012
Love’s ladder’s God
posted by Patrick Lee Miller
It was their final conversation. She would soon die, although neither of them knew it at the time. St. Augustine and his mother waited for a ship that would take her across the sea, to Africa, where she had raised him. She had always prayed he would become a Catholic; now, after many years, he was one. “There we talked together,” he writes in his Confessions, “she and I alone in deep joy.” This common joy stemmed from their shared company, but also their shared belief in God.
December 3rd, 2009
Karen Armstrong on the challenge of God
posted by Nathan SchneiderKaren Armstrong, according to a recent profile at Holy Post, doesn’t think understanding God should be easy.
May 30th, 2008
The cognitive revolution and the decline of monotheism
posted by Kelly BulkeleyTo appreciate the cultural impact of the “cognitive revolution” discussed by David Brooks in his New York Times op-ed column “The Neural Buddhists” (May 13, 2008), we need to be clear about what has and has not been revolutionized by neuroscience. Brooks gets the research essentially right, but he overlooks some key issues raised by “neural Buddhism” that make me question his view of its future effects on religion and culture. [...]
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