David Kimball's blog

The following is an excellent, excellent article by Susan Jocoby. She is an author and a reporter for the Washington Post and also Newsweek. I have just received two of her books "The Age of American Unreason" and "Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism". And then I came across this article. I am reprinting it in its entirety here rather than giving a hyperlink that probably no one would follow. Please read this.

Saddleback Church Forum: A Religious Test For The Presidency

Here is an excellent article on how we are experiencing more censorship for religious critical analysis. Not government censorship, but censorship by fear from within our society - fear of jihadists. Censorship through fear is always worse than government censorship.

Enlightenment is when you reach a level of understanding that dispels your previous fear. It is not a state but it is specific to each and every and any fear that one might have. When one becomes unafraid of death, or beyond death, is one example of being enlightened. Belief in religion does not dispel the fear of after-death, it only overcomes that fear. Which is why religion requires one to believe in it so forcefully. It is an act of heavier force, not en-lightening (double entendre intended).