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Christian Agnostics

05.04.2025

Christian Agnostics: Inconvenient Bible Passages, Part One

While cleaning out my accumulated papers, I ran across a list of Bible verses that I taught in a Natural Resources Conservation class at a...

Christian Agnostics

15.03.2025

Christian Agnostics: A Modest Proposal: How Trump and Musk Can Save the World from Global Warming

A Modest Proposal: How Trump and Musk Can Save the World The only truly effective way to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atm...

Christian Agnostics

08.03.2025

Christian Agnostics: Gulf of America: Why Stop There?

It is usually scientists who have the right and responsibility to decide the scientific names of organisms, and in some cases the common nam...

Christian Agnostics

19.02.2025

Christian Agnostics: Christian Hatred

Conservative Christians are inspired by hatred, as many of us have discovered. This does not mean that all Christians are so inspired, of co...

Christian Agnostics

01.02.2025

Christian Agnostics: When Kings Go Forth to War

The Bible is left over from an earlier era where war was just considered a normal part of leadership. The most recent portions of the Bibl...

Christian Agnostics

25.01.2025

Christian Agnostics: Am I the Enemy?

The ultimate measure of success for big corporations, and little ones, and individuals, and governments, is profit. An enemy is anyone who r...

Christian Agnostics

18.01.2025

Christian Agnostics: A New English Verb: To Trump

For centuries, the verb to trump has meant, in card games, that the hand of cards that one person has prevails over the hand that another pe...

Christian Agnostics

11.01.2025

Christian Agnostics: Tipping Points: Any Cause for Hope?

I just finished reading, two decades after it was published, the book Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. I read it at the same time that I ...

Christian Agnostics

04.01.2025

Christian Agnostics: This Changes Everything

Greetings. I have a felicitous essay with which you can begin your new year. I have just finished the manuscript of a seventh book tha...

Christian Agnostics

09.11.2024

Christian Agnostics: Vanishing Utopias

We all know that utopias cannot ever exist. But, according to historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind ,...

Christian Agnostics

27.10.2024

Christian Agnostics: The Stars in their Courses

This is from an email I wanted to send to the office of the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ryan Walters. However, neit...

Christian Agnostics

12.10.2024

Christian Agnostics: Gutenberg and Printing: A View from Strasbourg

Strasbourg, France, where I now live, is justly proud of Johannes Gutenberg (about 1406-1468), who invented the printing press. He was born...

Christian Agnostics

07.09.2024

Christian Agnostics: Happiness Is Fill in the Blank

I’ve been looking through a dull but well-intentioned book from 1937, 101 of the World’s Greatest Books. That is, five to ten page summar...

Christian Agnostics

10.08.2024

Christian Agnostics: As Always, Mark Twain

In the previous essay, I tried my hand at humorous creativity to shoot down the idea that a benevolent God is in control of the world. B...

Christian Agnostics

04.08.2024

Christian Agnostics: Philosophical Debate of Two Fetuses

I recently became aware, years later than everyone else, about a story that religious people use to “prove” that there can be life after dea...

Christian Agnostics

19.07.2024

Christian Agnostics: Gutenberg and Printing: A View from Strasbourg

Strasbourg, France, where I now live, is justly proud of Johannes Gutenberg (about 1406-1468), who invented the printing press. He was bo...

Christian Agnostics

13.07.2024

Christian Agnostics: White Superiority? Not.

I recently posted an essay (July 4), on my other blog about how the Founding Fathers thought they had found a natural basis for governm...

Christian Agnostics

05.07.2024

Christian Agnostics: Will America Celebrate July 4, 2025?

Of course we will. But it might be a profoundly different kind of celebration. Donald Trump consistently refuses to recognize the legi...

Christian Agnostics

18.05.2024

Christian Agnostics: By Their Fruits

Jesus famously said that “by their fruits you shall know them.” He made it clear that what he meant was that good people do good things, b...

Christian Agnostics

23.03.2024

Christian Agnostics: Fiction that Makes You Think

I have just finished reading my third science fiction novel by the twentieth-century French writer René Barjavel. I have written previously ...

Christian Agnostics

24.02.2024

Christian Agnostics: I Am Not Afraid to Die

I am not afraid to die, even though I am agnostic about the afterlife, if there is one—about judgment, bliss, suffering, and all the other...

Christian Agnostics

17.02.2024

Christian Agnostics: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

This is the phrase that celebrity physicist Richard Feynman used to describe the joy of scientific research. But it also describes the joy...

Christian Agnostics

03.02.2024

Christian Agnostics: The End of Creativity

Aldous Huxley wrote a short novel in which he saw a pickup truck speeding out of a Hollywood movie studio, overloaded with unsolicited scr...

Christian Agnostics

06.01.2024

Christian Agnostics: What is Faith?

As a scientist, let me start off by saying what faith is not . It is not simply believing something that somebody else has told you. F...

Christian Agnostics

08.12.2023

Christian Agnostics: What a Secular Society Looks Like

I have relocated permanently to Strasbourg, France, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. There are numerous small and large differences between life...

Christian Agnostics

22.10.2023

Christian Agnostics: Poverty and Blame: A Message from Fluff the Cottonwood

Hello, this is Fluff the Cottonwood Tree near Stan’s house in Tulsa. He has given me permission to post these observations on his blog. My p...

Christian Agnostics

13.10.2023

Christian Agnostics: Christianity Used to be Interesting

I was an active fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA), and went to their national meetings whenever I could, mostly in the ...

Christian Agnostics

13.10.2023

Christian Agnostics: What Should the World Be Like? Republicans and Gun Violence

Republicans talk a lot about what the world should be like, following the example of the late hatemonger Rush Limbaugh in his book The Way...

Christian Agnostics

13.10.2023

Christian Agnostics: The Climate Has Changed Before, so Don't Worry?

Nearly everyone now knows that climate change is real, and that humans are either causing it or making it worse. So I don’t discuss it wit...

Christian Agnostics

16.09.2023

Christian Agnostics: Thomas Gilcrease: Master of Altruism

As described in Connie Cronley’s masterful and readable biography of the Oklahoma progressive crusader Kate Barnard , young Native men and...

Christian Agnostics

01.09.2023

Christian Agnostics: Corporate War on Altruism

Altruism, which I have defined many times in many ways on this blog, is doing well by doing good. It is not selfless sacrifice. The altrui...

Christian Agnostics

25.08.2023

Christian Agnostics: Race and History, As If You Needed Another Example: Jackson Barnett, part two.

Jackson Barnett was an easy-going, illiterate, uneducated Creek Indian who lived near Henryetta, Oklahoma. The federal government forced h...

Christian Agnostics

18.08.2023

Christian Agnostics: Race and History, As If You Needed Another Example: Jackson Barnett, part one.

If there is one thing that conservatives are proud of in America, it is that rich people can do whatever they want with their money, so long...

Christian Agnostics

12.08.2023

Christian Agnostics: No Such Thing as Truth

It used to be, decades ago, the political left that believed in factual relativism. There are still a few examples today. But now factual ...

Christian Agnostics

05.08.2023

Christian Agnostics: The Brutal Truth

In science, literal truth is enshrined as the ultimate good. We like to imagine that we tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but t...

Christian Agnostics

29.07.2023

Christian Agnostics: Just Go Dump Your Mining Wastes on the Native Americans: A Recycling Story

The Quapaw Native American town of Picher, Oklahoma once had the biggest lead mine in the world. Half of all the zinc and lead used by the U...

Christian Agnostics

21.07.2023

Christian Agnostics: La Bête Humaine

This is the title of an 1890 French novel by Émile Zola. I read an English translation that retained the original French title. (The e-cir...

Christian Agnostics

14.07.2023

Christian Agnostics: Hell: An Update

On April 29, I posted an essay on this blog in which I said that eternal torture in Hell was impossible because any mind, even artificial in...

Christian Agnostics

20.05.2023

Christian Agnostics: And He Became a Living Soul

I do not write in this blog very much about abortion, since I do not fully understand the issues. But I heard an interesting news report f...

Christian Agnostics

11.05.2023

Christian Agnostics: Uncommon Happiness

How many people are really happy? Assuming we can even define happiness. The one thing we can be sure of is this: far fewer people are happ...

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Christian Agnostics: Inconvenient Bible Passages, Part One

Christian Agnostics: A Modest Proposal: How Trump and Musk Can Save the World from Global Warming

Christian Agnostics: Gulf of America: Why Stop There?

Christian Agnostics: Christian Hatred

Christian Agnostics: When Kings Go Forth to War

Christian Agnostics: Am I the Enemy?

Christian Agnostics: A New English Verb: To Trump

Christian Agnostics: Tipping Points: Any Cause for Hope?

Christian Agnostics: This Changes Everything

Christian Agnostics: Vanishing Utopias

Christian Agnostics: The Stars in their Courses

Christian Agnostics: Gutenberg and Printing: A View from Strasbourg

Christian Agnostics: Happiness Is Fill in the Blank

Christian Agnostics: As Always, Mark Twain

Christian Agnostics: Philosophical Debate of Two Fetuses

Christian Agnostics: Gutenberg and Printing: A View from Strasbourg

Christian Agnostics: White Superiority? Not.

Christian Agnostics: Will America Celebrate July 4, 2025?

Christian Agnostics: By Their Fruits

Christian Agnostics: Fiction that Makes You Think

Christian Agnostics: I Am Not Afraid to Die

Christian Agnostics: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Christian Agnostics: The End of Creativity

Christian Agnostics: What is Faith?

Christian Agnostics: What a Secular Society Looks Like

Christian Agnostics: Poverty and Blame: A Message from Fluff the Cottonwood

Christian Agnostics: Christianity Used to be Interesting

Christian Agnostics: What Should the World Be Like? Republicans and Gun Violence

Christian Agnostics: The Climate Has Changed Before, so Don't Worry?

Christian Agnostics: Thomas Gilcrease: Master of Altruism

Christian Agnostics: Corporate War on Altruism

Christian Agnostics: Race and History, As If You Needed Another Example: Jackson Barnett, part two.

Christian Agnostics: Race and History, As If You Needed Another Example: Jackson Barnett, part one.

Christian Agnostics: No Such Thing as Truth

Christian Agnostics: The Brutal Truth

Christian Agnostics: Just Go Dump Your Mining Wastes on the Native Americans: A Recycling Story

Christian Agnostics: La Bête Humaine

Christian Agnostics: Hell: An Update

Christian Agnostics: And He Became a Living Soul

Christian Agnostics: Uncommon Happiness

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