Imagine Forever: a no-heaven reason to be good
Once upon a time, not so long ago, and not very far away, a farmer imagined having a cow that he could feed and milk forever. A cow like that, he reckoned, would enable both ...
Religion
My views on the Santa-for-Adults gods and their associated religions
Love Thy Neighbor : The Evolution of In-Group Morality
The world’s major religions espouse a moral code that includes injunctions against murder, theft, and lying – or so conventional Western wisdom would have it.
Prospects For Existence : Morality and Genetic Engineering
Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, Evolution and Ethics
Thou Shalt Not Kill… Whom?
Palestine Times, December 1997 Zionism comes from the bowels of the Bible. In a display of chutzpah even more galling than the Balfour Declaration, the first Zionists invented a god who commanded them to commit ...
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[Arabic] Thou Shall Not Kill…Whom?
يعتقد أغلب المسيحيين واليهود أن الكتاب المقدس ينهاهم عن قتل الناس، أما الصهاينة فهم يدركون أن وصية “لا تقتل” لا تشمل كل الناس، وإنما هي أمر إلهي للمؤمنين بألا يقتلوا بعضهم فقط. إن هذا التفسير ...
Bring Them Here: A One State Solution for Israel and Palestine
There is a way for the United States to end its occupation of Iraq … and put the people of Iraq on a path that will lead to peace … for all of us. The ...
Passover: Read Thoughtfully
Long before The Holocaust, Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) urged readers to consider the Passover story’s backstory – the enslavement of Egyptians that preceded the enslavement of Jews. He used the word ‘corner’ in the ...
Thou Shalt Not Kill…Whom?
This video addresses the apparent contradiction between commandments to love our neighbors and commandments to kill our neighbors in the Bible. Lead Image Courtesy: The mass grave found at Lützen. NICKLISCH ET AL./PLOS ONE
Chastity, Fidelity and Conquest: Biblical Rules for Women and War
Original In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War (pp. 77-90). Oxford University Press, 2012. For Abeer Qassim al-Janabi because the consequences of a life need ...
Prospects for Morality: God, Women, and Evolution
Presented at The Skeptics Society Annual Conference on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Ethics. Pasadena, CA, 1996, with introduction by Dr. Bernard Leikind