Scott Adams: In his own words
Imagine that you go to a football game in the United States. The announcer asks the crowd to rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Everyone stands and faces the flag. Except you. In this thought experiment you’re a citizen of the United States and a patriot. You were born in…
Read MoreThere is no such thing as absolute success. Success only has meaning in relation to other things. For example, my book, God’s Debris, is ranked #8 on a recent Amazon.com best seller list in the Religious Studies – Psychology category. That doesn’t seem like much of a success until you notice who placed…
Read MoreSome of you questioned my so-called fact that religious faith is correlated with lower education and intelligence. It’s appropriate to question those sorts of statistics since it’s entirely possible that the studies were done by atheist-leaning weasels. I would go so far as to say probable. My reasoning is that…
Read MoreThe results are in, unscientifically speaking. Those of you who believe in psychics almost always believe in God. This does not surprise me. As many readers noted, psychic powers have often been tested in the lab. And while studies sometimes hint that these powers exist, none of those results has…
Read MoreRecently I asked the believers among you to explain why you believe in your own prophet but not the other guy’s prophet. The LDS (Mormon) folks said they talk directly to God and get personal answers. Most of the rest of you said something along the lines that your prophet(s)…
Read MoreSoon after 9/11 I decided to read the Koran to see what would inspire believers to pilot a jet into a building. I picked up an English translation and dove in. My impression of this translated version was that it was stuffed with warlike language about killing the Christians and…
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