Being a Secular Atheist started to feel like trying to walk on thin ice.

This sweet photo caught my eye so I was drawn to the accompanying post by Gerard Vanderleun on "The very small limits of the secular."

It seems that for Science to triumph as the new religion, Christ has to die again — and this time he’s got to stay dead.

My very small puppy in this fight says that there is a lot in Science that lets all of us live longer and better lives while there is a lot in Christianity that lets us live deeper and more meaningful lives.

I don’t look to Christianity to bring me the weather reports for tomorrow. At the same time I don’t look to Science to ever, in its widest dreams, reveal the core of the miracle and mystery of being a conscious entity who has been granted the gift of being able, in my better moments, to witness — even for an inch of time — the wonder of Creation.

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