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Back Again to There: A Nontheistic Statement of Faithiness

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 20, 2012

[Editor's Note: This is a follow-up to There and Back Again. If you haven't read that post, start there (including the comments) and then come back.] I finally figured out what was bothering me. While driving to the Science Online 2012 open mic night and listening to Jon Watts’ Lifted Up, I suddenly had an [...]

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Applied Epistemology, or, What Does “Real” Mean Anyway?

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 9, 2008

Anyone who has seen “The Matrix” knows that determining what is “real” is a lot trickier than it seems at first: “The Matrix” demonstrates that our intuitive identification of “real” is easily fooled. Even that conception of “real” where you get people together and see what you can all agree on — called “intersubjective varifiability” [...]

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A Note on Religious Terminology

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 27, 2007

Editor’s Note: The best part of this post is the comments that follow it. Be sure to read them: lots of cool conversation and some juicy links down there. Started listening to The Infidel Guy Show, which was referred to me as a good “secular humanist” podcast. It really is good, and there was a [...]

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Non-Relativistic Religious Tolerance

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 20, 2007

Because you believe in the Christian tradition, which affirms the creation of the human race in the image of God…because of that, because, therefore, religious faith is so important, rather than because it is so trivial, therefore you must not constrain others, because faith can only be given freely. — Jaroslav Pelikan, “Speaking of Faith: [...]

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“Speaking of Faith” on L’Arche

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 6, 2007

This is one of the most amazing stories I’ve ever heard. Given my post-modern and intellectual approach to religion, it is easy for me to see God in academic terms: as though knowing God is dependent upon intellectual analysis, like He is one of the realities revealed within a mathematical proof. It’s an easy trap, [...]

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