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- "We're a species that is capable of almost dumbfounding kindness. We nurse one another, romance one another, weep for one another. Ever since science taught us how, we willingly tear the very organs from our bodies and give them to one another. And at the same time, we slaughter one another. The past 15 years of human history are the temporal equivalent of those subatomic particles that are created in accelerators and vanish in a trillionth of a second, but in that fleeting instant, we've visited untold horrors on ourselves—in Mogadishu, Rwanda, Chechnya, Darfur, Beslan, Baghdad, Pakistan, London, Madrid, Lebanon, Israel, New York City, Abu Ghraib, Oklahoma City, an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania—all of the crimes committed by the highest, wisest, most principled species the planet has produced. That we're also the lowest, cruelest, most blood-drenched species is our shame—and our paradox." - This is from a Time magazine article. I guess a good way to describe myself, is that I spend hours and hours each day thinking about stuff like this. I want to think/talk about it, obsessively at times, until I feel like progress is being made towards an answer regarding how we can better understand humanity, our norms, and what greatness is possible if only we could shed so many of the problematic trends, traditions, prejudices and misinterpretations that have dominated society for as long as we've been a 'civilized' species....
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Can Religion Be Child Abuse?
Posted on November 12, 2008 at 5:35pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
I've posted a disturbing video on my blog at www.createcognitivedissonance.wordpress.com and some good discussion has arisen from it. Check it out.
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Ben Barnett
Homosexuality
Posted on October 22, 2008 at 11:41pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
I've got a good debate going on my blog, www.createcognitivedissonance.wordpress.com, regarding Homosexuality and Prop 8. I've had a New Church minister attempt to defend his position on homosexuality, and the comment lines have been full of a very lively back & forth. Check it out!
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Ben Barnett
Calling All Bloggers!
Posted on October 13, 2008 at 4:15pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
If anyone is interested in doing a guest post on my blog, www.createcognitivedissonance.wordpress.com - please contact me. I've got a great set of debates going on my site, and will also have several religious folks posting their views. The hope is that by inviting participation by all types, the debate will cover a great deal of philosophical ground. Maybe some minds will be changed, if only in small ways. I think the defense of Reason within the competitive marketplace of ideas is essential.… Continue
A Running Diary of the Atheist Alliance International Convention
Posted on October 1, 2008 at 10:28pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
parts 1-3 are available on my blog, www.createcognitivedissonance.wordpress.com, please come check out my review and peruse the rest of the articles, including a recent debate regarding The God Delusion.
Cheers!
Ben
Cheers!
Ben
A Yale Jr. Prof Reviews THE GOD DELUSION
Posted on September 23, 2008 at 12:16am 0 Comments 0 Likes
If you've read this book, I'd sure love to have any of you visit my blog to read the latest guest post by Neil Shenvi. Neil received his PhD from Berkeley and is now at Yale University doing research & teaching Theoretical Physical Chemistry.
Neil's review is the front page topic on www.createcognitivedissonance.wordpress.com - check it out!! It would be great to have a few atheist/agnostic responses.
Ben Barnett
Neil's review is the front page topic on www.createcognitivedissonance.wordpress.com - check it out!! It would be great to have a few atheist/agnostic responses.
Ben Barnett
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Stormy
I'm still trying to figure this site out but I will be sure to check out your blog.
Cheers!
Thanks for the cross linking :)
I dig your blog, good stuff! Putting it on my blogroll now if you don't mind the cross linkage.
Thanks for the friends request.
I am a big Dennett fan, I have read Darwin's Dangerous Idea and I am currently almost finished with Breaking the Spell. How about u?