Entries Tagged as ‘Religion’

December 10, 2008

Wild, wacky stuff

Video of a 2005 discussion between Cornel West and Slavoj Zizek has been posted on youtube.

Just in time to disrupt my final exam flow. Awesome.

December 1, 2008

Prayer

I recently spoke with someone very close to me concerning the subject of prayer.
I have relatively little traditional background when it comes to this aspect of the religious experience. As an adolescent, I regularly attended Hebrew school and Shabbat services, but because I could only pronounce, rather than actually understand Hebrew, prayer [...]

October 25, 2008

Question for the religious, non-religious defenders of religious belief, and people who just really dislike Richard Dawkins…

If you knew an intelligent, open-minded young admirer of the New Atheism heroes (Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris…), and could only give them one book to help them develop a more sophisticated appreciation of religion/God/etc., what would you choose?
I should probably point out that this isn’t for me — I’m not religious and I find the arguments [...]