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The Animal Industrial Complex

January 4th, 2011 | by Harmonist staff

The animal industrial complex achieves the annual slaughter of in excess of 56 billion farmed animals, and that number is on an upward trajectory


Distribution in Danger

November 26th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

When the fear of destruction comes, whether individual or collective, we shall try our best to utilize our time with the high conception, within divinity. It is also admirable when the apprehension of danger is acute and yet one runs there to perform relief work


Are the Faithful More Gullible?

November 24th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Major scams in recent years have targeted Jehovah\'s Witnesses, Baptists, black churches and other denominations, from $190 million lost in a scam promoted by a Christian radio host to an estimated $1.4 billion conned from thousands of Utah Mormons.


Yoga: The New Antichrist

October 12th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

I can\'t help thinking: what are they afraid of? Non-Christians absorb through osmosis countless doses of Christian theology. We sing Christmas carols like they\'re pop tunes. Yet, despite the relentless exposure, there is no sign of mass conversion


Religion, Science, and the Academy

September 20th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

A number of the university scientists suggested that their colleagues begin to change their perspective by rejecting scientism, a disciplinary imperialism that leads them to assert that science is the only valid way of knowing and that it can be used to interpret all other forms of knowledge.


Is Science Omnicompetent?

September 12th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

This idea that science is an all-purpose oracle dealing with every kind of question is surely very odd. Yet that promise was confidently launched in the 1930s and has proved a very powerful myth


The Realm of Reason

August 14th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

For some un-reason, we feel that our ability to reason is limitless and infinitely perfectible. Nobody has voiced the idea that the exercise of our ability to think can reach the point of diminishing, then negative, returns


Wisdom Weed

August 5th, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, one may have visions of Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, or dancing elephants for that matter, but such visions are only temporary creations of the mind


Scientists on Science and Religion

August 3rd, 2010 | by Harmonist staff

Nobel Prize winning physicist and foundational contributor to quantum mechanics Werner Heisenberg gives us a glimpse into the \"science and religion\" discourse as it took place among some prominent scientists of the twentieth century



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