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Religion Series for Teens- part 3- Get High With A Little Help From Your Friends

April 24, 2015 by Peter Holding

No matter what the teachings of the various religious prophets- Moses, Jesus Christ, Muhammad and Buddha- history shows that the spread of the world’s most successful religions was often assisted through support from powerful or rich friends of the religion and through military conquest. Judaism Moses is regarded as a leading prophet for the Jewish religion […]

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Religion Series for Teens- Part 2- Arguments for and against God

April 24, 2015 by Peter Holding

  There are two different types of argument that have traditionally been put forward in support of religion or belief in God. The first type of argument goes to the issue of whether any God, or Gods, really exist. This first type of arguments does not generally say anything about what the God or Gods that exist […]

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Religion Series for Teens- Part 1 Darwin and Religion- Three Views on how Human Beings developed

April 24, 2015 by Peter Holding

  Darwin’s big idea Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is that all organisms (living things) develop from characteristics, or traits, that are inherited from their parents. Certain traits have survival advantages. Traits with survival advantages enable an organism to cope better in the environment in which it lives. Darwin’s big idea was that over […]

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Two Dumbest Ideas From Philosophy- Anselm’s “proof” of God and Berkeley’s idea about existence

June 22, 2014 by Peter Holding

There have been a lot of strange ideas in philosophy. But I think St. Anselm’s “proof” of the existence of God and George Berkeley’s ideas about existence rank among the dumbest. Perhaps you can find some dumber ones? St Anselm’s “proof” of the existence of God Anselm (1033-1109) believed he had proved the existence of God in the […]

Filed Under: for teens, philosophy Tagged With: Anslem's proof of God, Berkeley's ideas about existence, dumb ideas in philosophy

The ideas of fate, predicting the future and pre-destination

June 9, 2014 by Peter Holding

Summary: Hunter gatherers appear not to have been pre-occupied with predicting the future. Ideas about fate and pre-destiny arose more strongly after the advent of farming as pleasing God might be rewarded with better harvests. Examines the idea that fortune telling may have been an earlier method of psychotherapy. Analyses ideas of fate and pre-destiny […]

Filed Under: for teens, history, philosophy, religion Tagged With: farming anf fortune telling, Fate and pre-destiny; hunter-gatherers living in the present, fortune telling and psychotherapy, Marxism and historical destiny, Nazism and racial destiny, religion and predestiny

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