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So I have this new friend. We met a few weeks ago and simply enjoyed one another's energy and personalities. We became fast FB friends. Now, if you are an atheist, you know exactly what is about to happen. Everything is fine and dandy; we're laughing at one another's jokes, liking each other's pics of kids, wishing one another well, etc. Until that very moment that I wrote the first thing that identified me as a possible nonbeliever.  I posted the meme above that reads It would only take one piece of verifiable evidence to destroy atheist . This new friend immediately starts to sound panicky and writing about faith. You know, what I hope again and again is that new friends who are believers can handle it. My ongoing hope is that they can get to know me, can like me for the person that I am, and then, when finding out I'm an atheist, can just deal with it and maintain our friendship. But again and again I find that some people simply can't do it. Geesh, and peopl...

For all of the people paying any attention to the Mark Zuckerburg testimonies, I feel like this is a bit of a watershed moment in history, a thing that we'll all remember in later years. It is the time when the freedom we've been experiencing on the internet is in jeopardy; it is when our freedoms will disappear into bullshit governmental regulations in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the revelations about FB’s role in the spread of Russian disinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign, as well as CA's misuse of private information of FB users; it is when Zuckerberg has to answer questions about Facebook’s past, current, and future actions. I'm not a big fan of government. Smaller government is my preference, and not   in the Current Day Republican form of smaller government , but in the traditional fewer rules and more freedoms form of smaller government. But the problem with fewer regulations is this: human beings can be opportunistic, lying,...

We have a very good friend who often says that he believes in all of the religions. That makes him an Omnist. Omni , meaning all, the belief in all. Omnists accept the truth of all religions.  I'm thinking the Omnists would be likely to have one of those C o e x i s t bumper stickers on their car. I'm sure most Omnists think of themselves as spiritual   rather than religious . I'm sure there is a spectrum of Omnism, so any definition would, therefore, be incorrect.  But let's look at it a bit anyway. I can understand the willingness to be open to the wisdom of all belief systems; I'm sure there is at least some wisdom and knowledge available in many forms and under many guises. I get that. I can wholly appreciate the perceived equality of it all; there is no superior group or belief system. I can dig that. I'm assuming that an Omnist generally accepts the beliefs of all religions. I can appreciate the Omnists' efforts to be equitable and accepting of all....