Religion and Science
Research resources on religion and science.
Research resources on religious movements, cults, sects, world religions and related issues
Month: October 2009
Ponzi Schemes, Debating Bart Ehrman, and should a Christian speak at a Seventh-Day Adventist venue?
Dinesh D'Souza wanted to debate Bart Ehrman on his home turf, before his own students, to show them that his arguments could be met and that there is an intelligent case for the other side.
Some folks behind one of Canada's most popular Christian TV shows got caught up in a Ponzi scheme....
And Christian apologist Lee Strobel is schedule to speak at one of the most prominent Seventh-day Adventist churches in America -- which has other apologists, noting the SDA's unbiblical doctrines, puzzled.
Some folks behind one of Canada's most popular Christian TV shows got caught up in a Ponzi scheme....
And Christian apologist Lee Strobel is schedule to speak at one of the most prominent Seventh-day Adventist churches in America -- which has other apologists, noting the SDA's unbiblical doctrines, puzzled.
Greg G. Stafford
Greg Stafford is one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
He is considered one of today's top Jehovah's Witness apologists -- even though he rejects some of the teachings and practices of The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the faith's formal organization.
He is considered one of today's top Jehovah's Witness apologists -- even though he rejects some of the teachings and practices of The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the faith's formal organization.
The Perils of Positive Thinking
Has your favorite pastor or TV evangelist suggested that God will make you rich if only you make a 'positive confession' along with a big -- step-out-in-faith -- donation?
Have you ever been asked to think of your layoff, cancer, or foreclosure as an "opportunity"?
Here's a book that explodes the myths of 'positive thinking.
Have you ever been asked to think of your layoff, cancer, or foreclosure as an "opportunity"?
Here's a book that explodes the myths of 'positive thinking.
How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
"Positive thinking is not only a water carrier for the business world, excusing its excesses and masking its follies," Barbara Ehrenreich writes.
"The promotion of positive thinking has become a minor industry in its own right, producing an endless flow of books, DVDs, and other products; providing employment for tens of thousands of "life coaches," "executive coaches," and motivational speakers, as well as for the growing cadre of professional psychologists who seek to train them.
America has historically offered space for all sorts of sects, cults, faith healers, and purveyors of snake oil, and those that are profitable, like positive thinking, tend to flourish."
Read the introduction to Barbara Ehrenreich's new book: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.
"The promotion of positive thinking has become a minor industry in its own right, producing an endless flow of books, DVDs, and other products; providing employment for tens of thousands of "life coaches," "executive coaches," and motivational speakers, as well as for the growing cadre of professional psychologists who seek to train them.
America has historically offered space for all sorts of sects, cults, faith healers, and purveyors of snake oil, and those that are profitable, like positive thinking, tend to flourish."
Read the introduction to Barbara Ehrenreich's new book: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.
Foundation for a Drug-Free World
The Foundation for a Drug-Free World -- at drugfreeworld.org -- is an anti-drug organization with links to and funded by the Church of Scientology. It promotes Scientology's quackery.
We suggest trusted alternative sources of information about drugs.
We suggest trusted alternative sources of information about drugs.