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  Excerpt from How to Argue with an Atheist , by Professor TL Brink STEP #2: Accept the limits of reason     STUDENT: Dr. Brink, is it OK for our weekly religion discussion?   BRINK: You are right on time. Any problems with what we covered last week?   STUDENT: No, like I said, I am a rational kind of person, so I have no problems accepting that I exist and that other people exist.   BRINK: And what about that people are driven by values?   STUDENT: Oh, yeh, that too is logical, but I just can't see what that has to do with religion. Humans to me are just like other animals: they exist, they have desires. So where does God fit into the picture?   BRINK: That is a few more steps down the road.   STUDENT: Must be, because what you said last time was so rational, and religion still seems irrational.   BRINK: Tell me what you mean by being rational.   STUDENT: Following the rules of reason.   BRINK: Give me an example of good, rational reasoning.   STUDENT: Like the one we talked about

  Diana Keathley, author of the award-winning  GodSway , wrote an intriguing blog post, quite seasonal, recently: " The Monster in My Head. " (The link will take you to this blog post -- and others.) Should you not like clicking links, here is the full post: With my broken foot booted and propped up, I sat angled in the corner of the couch surfing the station guide and Netflix to find something to take my mind off the most recent frustration. Looking for something uplifting and inspiring, I was annoyed that so close to Halloween practically all I found were horror movies and sci-fi thrillers – a myriad of variations of ghosts, monsters, murderers, and resident evil. As someone who experienced my own version of a horror movie inside my head as a young teen, I can’t understand why people choose to watch those scenarios, on purpose. “With the door firmly shut and locked, I could roll with the wave of sheer terror that I physically felt surging up through my legs, torso, and engu