Are you familiar you Pascal’s Wager? French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal said that even if you doubt the existence of God, you should be religious just in case He exists. Why? Because if you ‘re a good Christian and God doesn’t exist, you lose a few Sundays in this life before facing the eternal …
While researching my recent article on religion and morality, I started looking for atheist and non-religious people who have made a positive change in this world. There were plenty of people to choose from, but after I while I did start to notice a dichotomy. Most of the moral, but non-religious people I found were …
The Dalai Lama recently said that religion isn’t enough. He says we need something else to boost moral and ethical thinking in the world. I agree with this statement. While we have traditionally connected religion and morality, the two are completely separate. To see this, all we have to do is look at the people. …
Everyone knows the Pope is old, but so is the office. The Papacy traces its roots back to St. Peter himself, but it turns out the institute is even older than that. In fact, it’s been around at least eight centuries before Jesus. Sometimes you’ll see the Pope referred to as the Pontiff. Mostly it’s …
Here’s another metaphysical concept that doesn’t work. Affirmations. Closely related to the Law of Attraction, this is the the idea that if you specifically affirm what you want, you can achieve your goals just by thinking about them hard enough. Some people try affirmations by talking in the mirror; others try to write it down …
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