Author Archives: Valerie Tarico

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About Valerie Tarico

Seattle psychologist and writer. Author - Trusting Doubt; Deas and Other Imaginings.

Dr. Valerie Tarico- Non-theists and Evangelicals: The IM Interview

Interview by Michael Spencer at The Internet Monk, a post-evangelical blog.    I have been wanting to do an interview with an articulate and perceptive non-theist, and I have found one in Dr. Valerie Tarico, author of The Dark Side: … Continue reading

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Too Poor to Get the Groceries Home?

  Republicans say that Democrats fail to encourage personal responsibility.   A battle in Seattle Washington over plastic bag fees provides a perfect, if minor, example.  After the city council voted to require a twenty cent per bag fee for disposable … Continue reading

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Christian Belief Through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 7 of 8

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Change Happens The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.   –Antisthenes My parents, as I’ve said before, were three for six in terms of producing believing children.  All of us accepted … Continue reading

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Christian Belief through the Lens of Cognitive Science, Part 6 of 8

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How Beliefs Resist Change The Jesuits have a saying sometimes attributed to Francis Xavier, “Give me the child until he is seven, and I will give you the man.”  The Jesuits were a tad optimistic, but ample research on identity … Continue reading

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The Book of Revelation: Prophecies, Hallucinations, or History?

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(Valerie Tarico interviews United Methodist minister Rich Lang.) Tarico: Real Christians are going to disappear abruptly someday soon.  The world is going to descend into a bloodbath while someone known as the antichrist attempts to seize control of the planet. … Continue reading

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