Abdulla Galadari (AUD): Reincarnation vs. Resurrection: The Debate Ends. Vera Pereira and Rodrigo de Sa-Saraiva (Lisboa) and Luis Faisca (Algarve): Immortality of the Soul as an Intuitive Idea: Towards a Psychological Explanation of the Origins of Afterlife Beliefs. From The American Interest, a review of The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade and Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age by Robert N. Bellah (and more and more and more and more). Cris Campbell on the myth of pristine “primitive” religions. Man the Religious Animal: Christian Smith on how we are naturally but not necessarily religious. From Big Questions Online, does quantum physics make it easier to believe in God? If Satan did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him, not as the ultimate villain but the ultimate scapegoat. How relativism justifies our selfishness: The atheistic philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche may have been right on the mark in his observations about the best way to undermine Christianity.
