Out of God's Closet

By Stephen F. Uhl, Ph.D.

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What's Out of God's Closet about?

The true story of one man's journey from faithful Roman Catholic priest to atheist psychologist. A serialized autobiographical audio book by Stephen Frederick Uhl, Ph.D.

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Out of God's Closet episodes:

11.24.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #06
Does God Exist? Believers need no proof of God's existence. However, they do offer a lot of emotion based "proofs" that fail to survive close analysis. The strongest and most lasting proof of God's existence is/was the causality proof offered by...
11.23.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #07
Read the Bible The Bible's Book of Genesis states very simply that "In the beginning God created..." Without any to-do God is just presumed, and that's that. Backing up centuries, now join the tired middle eastern camel drivers around the...
11.22.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #08
Is Religion harmful to society? Charles Dickens wrote that missionaries are nuisances that leave places worse than they found them. Mother Theresa seemed to serve the overcrowded slums of Calcutta while forbidding the use of condoms that could have brought real...
11.21.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #09
Historic God of wars and divisions Joshua, King David, Constantine, Mohammad, the Popes of the Crusades, Hitler, Osama bin Laden, Bush and many more got greatly increased killing power by calling on their God. Jihads continue in America as the Eric...
11.20.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #10
Modern young minds polluted by religion Good teachers instill curiosity about facts; religion teachers demand rote memorization of past beliefs, manipulative catch phrases. The Rosary remains a very powerful tool for the new evangelization of the Catholic Church, so Dr. Uhl...
11.19.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #11
Credulity impedes creative research Believers who abhor stem cell research and therapeutic cloning insist that a zygote of two or four cells is a human being. This dogmatic stance currently impedes proper funding of researchers who leave U.S. to get foreign...
11.18.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #12
Chapter five: Guilt and responsibility Religious guilt and a sense of personal lowliness (without god's grace) undermine self-esteem. A sense of dependency, then, weakens a person's conviction that he is responsible for all of his deliberate actions. Though preachers claim that...
11.17.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #13
How to protect the children Parents are powerful in forming youngsters' prejudices (pre-rational judgments). A lie, a piece of misinformation, a superstition, an unreasonable religious mystery, even an outdated family custom planted in the defenseless child's mind as factual is abusive....
11.16.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #14
Chapter six: Faith Can lead to Extremes St. Paul said faith exceeds all understanding. A half century ago the faith of McCarthyism concluded that "extremism in the defense of virtue is no vice." When such a faith quickly led to the...
11.15.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #15
Repeated fallacies become believable You can fool some of the people all of the time, so myths that are repeated often enough can become culturally acceptable. This helps explain how bumper sticker "truths," like "In God We Trust" and "One Nation...
11.14.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #16
First Amendment to the Constitution With the thousands of Christian denominations in U.S., there are religious leaders who believe they have divine knowledge that puts them above the civil law and the guidance of natural reason. As some of these teachers...
11.13.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #17
Further extremes that faith can lead to At a conference on miracles that Dr. Uhl participated in, another participant said it was a miracle that only 3,000 persons were killed by the collapse of the twin towers on 9/11/01. If there...
11.11.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #19
Chapter Seven: Humility is truth, not lowliness Humans have evolved into very complex thinking animals; it would be the greatest insult to nature to become less the thinker and more the believer in outdated "truths." Truly humble human beings, realizing...
11.10.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #20
Chapter Eight: Practical Atheism The ancient Greek philosopher, Epicurus, made this brief but strong case for there being No Good God: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing?...
11.09.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #21
Progress Toward Rationalism Modern meteorology needs no rain god. The modern scientific farmer now harvests about 200 bushels of corn from the same acre where his grandfather harvested less than 40 bushels. With improved educational levels, astrology and polytheism have mostly...
11.08.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #22
Chapter Nine: Life Without God in the United States If we were to assume there is no power higher than the power of the clearly functioning human intellect, more of us could join the ranks of Jefferson, Franklin, Einstein, Asimov, Newton,...
11.07.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #23
Grossly improved justice system without God Why should productive persons like Martha Stewart go to jail? Old Testament type of religious revenge says 'punish the sinner.' So our disastrously sick justice system insists that punishment must fit the crime. Reasoned consequences...
11.06.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #24
Chapter 10: The Golden Rule 'Treat others as you would reasonably want and expect to be treated if your roles were reversed.' This has a long pre-Christian history, because it works. Reasonable people discovered long ago that we help ourselves best...
11.05.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #25
Chapter 11: Ten Commandments for the 21st Century These modern Ten Commandments are based on The Golden Rule. So they can be posted anywhere without violating anyone's conscience or the . Your own reasoned observance of these ten guidelines serves to...
11.04.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #26
Epilogue This book has so deeply recognized that we all develop at different rates according to our very personal insights that it could have been titled The Book of Tolerance; I hope these differences in our developmental rates and insights will...
11.03.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #27
Appendix I: The Affirmations of Humanism The Affirmations of Humanism is a clear statement of the practical principles of humanism. These principles serve as guides to bring out the best in ourselves and others. These principles of secular humanism were distilled...
11.02.2011
No Gods, No Guilt #28
Appendix II: A Declaration of Progressive Principles and Personal Postscript These principles spell out how The Golden Rule should be lived in social and political life. They serve as guides for us in our efforts to defend dignity, to strengthen democracy,...

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Out of God's Closet episodes:

No Gods, No Guilt #06

No Gods, No Guilt #07

No Gods, No Guilt #08

No Gods, No Guilt #09

No Gods, No Guilt #10

No Gods, No Guilt #11

No Gods, No Guilt #12

No Gods, No Guilt #13

No Gods, No Guilt #14

No Gods, No Guilt #15

No Gods, No Guilt #16

No Gods, No Guilt #17

No Gods, No Guilt #19

No Gods, No Guilt #20

No Gods, No Guilt #21

No Gods, No Guilt #22

No Gods, No Guilt #23

No Gods, No Guilt #24

No Gods, No Guilt #25

No Gods, No Guilt #26

No Gods, No Guilt #27

No Gods, No Guilt #28