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A History of God
I’ve been reading Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam for the last few months. She isn’t trying to prove the existence of God, but traces how people have imagined God and the kinds of relationships they think they’ve had with him. Fundamentalism, the brand of Christianity I’m […]
What I’ve Been Listening To
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What I’ve Noticed
Lights on how the Christian community accepts rapists and vilifies their victims. Green spaces make you healthier. I wonder if houseplants help. Banning abortion doesn’t make it rarer, but it does make it more dangerous: unsafe abortions kill 70,000 women a year. A lack of access to contraceptives leads to 60 million unintended pregnancies a […]
Just a shoe
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Can we choose who we will become before we know who we are?
E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge: Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. There is no genetic destiny outside our free will, no lodestar provided by which we can set course. Evolution, including genetic progress in human nature and human capacity, will […]