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Corruption and Cruelty without Conscience

Government sponsored corruption and cruelty rattle the religious conscience while MAGA Republican bystanders shamelessly keep...

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Working on Science and Religion: Update

Fraser Watts at ISSR offers an update on those Working on Science and Religion. Let's...

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September 20, 2024

Pope Francis vs Jesus as the Only Way, Part 2

In trying to sort out options for interpreting Pope Francis on the world's religions, I...

September 19, 2024

Pope Francis vs Jesus as the Only Way, Part 1

In his Singapore address of September 13, 2024, Pope Francis enunciated the position commonly known...

March 2024

March 06, 2024

No Soul? What do materialists say? Soul 4

What do materialists say about the soul? There is no such thing. This is the...

June 2023

June 25, 2023

Buddhism and Science on Our Mind

In the dialogue between Buddhism and science, Buddhists believe they can offer a science of...

April 2023

April 05, 2023

Your Robot Pastor is Here

Are Bless U-2, Buddha-Bot, and Rabbi-Bot inaugurating a new era in religious leadership? Will AI...

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Did I lose my Self to my Brain?

Brain and self. What's the relation? Can a neuroscientist rightly say that the self can...

October 2022

October 12, 2022

Religious Transhumanism Resources

Religious Transhumanism: Articles and Resources

August 2022

August 25, 2022

What is Creation?

After comparing models of creation in Big Bang cosmology, the multiverse, Buddhism, Hinduism, Egyptian mythology,...

July 2022

July 04, 2022

A More Compassionate America?

To pursue a more compassionate America, we will need to renounce the Trump tyranny. Thanks...

June 2022

June 14, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 14. Is it Scientific?

Religious transhumanism does not pass the scientific test. Nor the religious test either.

April 2022

April 03, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 8: UU? Yes

Like siblings born to Enlightenment parents, both Unitarian Universalism and transhumanism inherited a reliance on...

March 2022

March 28, 2022

Religious Transhumanism 7: Buddhist? Yes.

Both Buddhism and Transhumanism seek to reduce suffering and increase happiness, by degrees and even...

February 2022

February 25, 2022

Short Prayers 26: Mysticism

How can an incorporating and inclusive totality of reality fit its grand truth inside our...

February 25, 2022

Short Prayers 25: Buddha

O God, who creates this world and the next, guide us into seeing both the...

February 25, 2022

Short Prayers 24: Grace

God of grace, we thank you for the forgiveness of our sins and the promise...

February 25, 2022

Short Prayers 23: Nature

Creator God, who loves every past of the world you have created, help us to...

February 06, 2022

Sin 7: The True Story of Satanic Panic

Is Satan back? Or, perhaps better, is Satanism back? Might we label the 2020’s: Satanic...

January 2022

January 22, 2022

Radical Life Extension? Digital Immortality? Resurrection?

Which do you prefer: radical life extension? Cybernetic immortality? Resurrection of the body? Or, just...

December 2021

December 30, 2021

NASA and Priests Preparing for ETI Contact?

NASA and religion? Really? Yes, really. NASA and Priests Preparing for ETI Contact? SR 1168...

December 24, 2021

The Public Theology of Paul Chung

"Public theology is a theological-philosophical endeavor to provide a broader frame of reference to facilitate...