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Friday's TV Talk Shows: Ronaiah Tuiasosopo; Goldie Hawn; Kevin Spacey
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies  --------------------  CBS This Morning Super Bowl coverage; quarterback Eli Manning; Neil Patrick Harris. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Kevin...
Tags: Robin Wright, Wanda Sykes, Chris Tucker, Daniel Dae Kim, Goldie Hawn
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Threatened by faith in Santa Monica
Christmas in Santa Monica has gotten a whole lot darker and a whole lot less tolerant. For almost 60 years Santa Monica's Palisades Park embodied the Christmas spirit with its displays depicting the birth of Jesus. Through the use of large dioramas, the...
Tags: Lotteries, Religious Festivals, Christopher Hitchens, Fiction, Holidays
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Book review: 'When I Was a Child I Read Books' by Marilynne Robinson
-------------------- When I Was a Child I Read Books Essays Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 232 pp., $24 -------------------- Marilynne Robinson, the Pulitzer-winning novelist, is a confounding writer in today's political alignment. Her...
Tags: Social Sciences, Culture, Belief and Faith, Edmund Burke, Book
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This Sunday: Figment, Charles Dickens, Etgar Keret and more
Jacket CopyFigment awarded innovators prize at LA Times Book Awards. Letters by Charles Dickens and short stories by Etgar Keret this Sunday.... -
Jazz review: Day 1 of the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl
Culture MonsterFiery performances by the Roots and a trip to New Orleans with musicians celebrating "A Night in Treme" galvanized the crowd at the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl... -
The Siren's Call: We Three Kings?
![What are we supposed to think when someone claims he's getting important life-changing news in a dream or from an angel? For some, the reaction is: Get the straitjacket ready. Others, however, will turn to someone like Richard Dawkins, who says such experiences are a byproduct of our organic wiring, a demonstration, he writes in "The God Delusion," of the "formidable power of the brain's simulation software." That's all. Elsewhere, in "The End of Faith," Sam Harris writes with obvious scorn that "it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that [God] is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-12/58317719-16172617.jpg "What are we supposed to think when someone claims he's getting important life-changing news in a dream or from an angel? For some, the reaction is: Get the straitjacket ready. Others, however, will turn to someone like Richard Dawkins, who says such experiences are a byproduct of our organic wiring, a demonstration, he writes in \"The God Delusion,\" of the \"formidable power of the brain's simulation software.\" That's all. Elsewhere, in \"The End of Faith,\" Sam Harris writes with obvious scorn that \"it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that [God] is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.\"")
Los Angeles TimesWhat are we supposed to think when someone claims he's getting important life-changing news in a dream or from an angel? For some, the reaction is: Get the straitjacket ready. Others, however, will turn to someone like Richard Dawkins, who says such...Tags: Mystery (genre), Disasters, Jesus Christ, Vatican City, Natural Disasters
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Religion: The heart believes what it will, but the brain behaves the same either way
Booster ShotsReligious believers may seem to share little with nonbelievers when it comes to thinking and judgment. But a new study by UCLA researchers finds that both Christians and nonbelievers use the same parts of the brain when asked to label...... -
Tuesday's TV Talk Shows: 'Nightline' hosts a debate between Deepak Chopra and Dr. Jean Houston versus Michael Shermer and Sam Harris
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of March 21 - 27 in PDF format This week's TV Movies The Early Show Author Ellie Slott Fisher. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Jennifer Love Hewitt; Jane Krakowski. (N) 7...... -
Live chat: spirituality and tests of faith
Times Staff Writer2007-07-24 13:03:20.0 Administrator2: We'll begin now -- welcome Bill, and thanks for chatting! 2007-07-24 13:04:09.0 JayH: Hi Bill! My first question is: have you felt at all like a lot of people, whether acquaintances or complete strangers, have made...Tags: Ethics, Protestantism, Depression, Abusive Behavior, Children
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Religion as a force for good
It has become fashionable in certain smart circles to regard atheism as a sign of superior education, of highly evolved civilization, of enlightenment. Recent bestsellers by Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and others suggest that religious faith is a...Tags: Civil Unrest, Crime, Law and Justice, World War II (1939-1945), Hinduism, Christopher Hitchens
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10 myths -- and 10 truths -- about atheism
SAM HARRIS is the author of "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason" and "Letter to a Christian Nation."SEVERAL POLLS indicate that the term "atheism" has acquired such an extraordinary stigma in the United States that being an atheist is now a perfect impediment to a career in politics (in a way that being black, Muslim or homosexual is not). According...Tags: Ethics, Islam, Qur'an, Crime, Law and Justice, Hinduism
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: abandoned to fanatics
As you read this, Ayaan Hirsi Ali sits in a safe house with armed men guarding her door. She is one of the most poised, intelligent and compassionate advocates of freedom of speech and conscience alive today, and for this she is despised in Muslim...Tags: Islam, Somalia, Salman Rushdie, Censorship, Parliament
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