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Living Without God - A Life of Reason
http://billcooney.blogspot.com
In creating this journal/blog, I hope to reach out to other people who share a desire to throw off the shackles of their religious indoctrination as children and forge a new life free of superstition and dogma, as well as freely examine many other 'topics of the day.'
- Added on: Jul 12th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Bill Cooney
- Listed in: Atheism Liberalism
- Tags: atheism agnosticism liberalism
Recent Posts
Self or God: The False Choice
Auxiliary Bishop Peter Rosazza of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut was interviewed recently on the Colin McEnroe Show on Connecticut Public Radio. (Check out the interview.) It was an oddly entertaining encounter—as revealin...
Twenty Years and Counting
It was a day like no other — at once ordinary and unique. Having as yet to be emancipated from the sticky tentacles of religiosity, Jami and I passively relented and were married in a church ceremony.The weight of expectations, in retrospect, was e...
My One-Time \'Encounter\' with Uncle Frank
It was the Summer of ’72. School was out, but the livin’ wasn’t exactly easy. I had just finished my second of three attempts at completing the tenth grade. Needless to say, I needed a diversion in the worst way.Enter dear old Dad—Henry F. Co...
Skepticism: The Critical Commodity
In the world some of us grew up in, obedience and conformity were the rule. Questioning authority was a sin. Was that the way it really should have been?As it turns out, obedience and conformity are necessary when the only sustenance being offered on...
A Glorious Dawn Awaits (by Carl Sagan)
America's Resilient Racist Underbelly
In the Srednyaya, Akhtuba province of Russia, African-born farmer Joaquim Crima is running for leading office. In a coffee shop the other day - right here in America - one Caucasian customer made his feelings about the matter very clear: "Don't worr...
