By The Center for Inquiry

While atheists agree that Jesus could not possibly have been the son of an imaginary god, scholars continue to debate whether a historical Jesus ever existed at all. Just in time for Easter, the latest issue of Free Inquiry confronts the Jesus myth head-on, exposing the errors, inconsistencies, and absurdities that run through the Bible’s conflicting accounts of the life and deeds of a revolutionary and, ultimately, fictional figure.
“Recognizing that Jesus was a mythical son of God is not just an esoteric question debated by religious scholars,” writes Eugene D. “Duke” Mertz. “On the contrary, it is absolutely vital to properly understand and address the appeal of Christianity. While some of these ideas could be considered revolutionary, Jesus was not killed because of them.”

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Posted on April 9, 2020

Choose wisely, my friends. You’re gonna be there a long time.
House Ashland
Rahm
Billy Corgan
Todd Ricketts
Sneed
Pat Quinn

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Posted on April 8, 2020

By Harvey Whitehouse, Patrick Savage, Peter Turchin and Peter Francois/The Conversation

When you think of religion, you probably think of a god who rewards the good and punishes the wicked. But the idea of morally concerned gods is by no means universal. Social scientists have long known that small-scale traditional societies – the kind missionaries used to dismiss as “pagan” – envisaged a spirit world that cared little about the morality of human behavior. Their concern was less about whether humans behaved nicely towards one another and more about whether they carried out their obligations to the spirits and displayed suitable deference to them.
Nevertheless, the world religions we know today, and their myriad variants, either demand belief in all-seeing punitive deities or at least postulate some kind of broader mechanism – such as karma – for rewarding the virtuous and punishing the wicked. In recent years, researchers have debated how and why these moralizing religions came into being.

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Posted on April 7, 2020

By NASA

NASA’s new internet and social media special, NASA at Home, will show and engage you in the agency’s discoveries, research and exploration from around the world and across the universe – all from the comfort of your own home.
NASA at Home offers something for the whole family. It brings together a repository of binge-worthy videos and podcasts, engaging e-books on a variety of topics, do-it-yourself projects, and virtual and augmented reality tours, which include the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope and International Space Station, as well as an app that puts you in the pilot’s seat of a NASA aircraft.

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Posted on April 2, 2020