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Posted in Existential, Faith, Human Rights, Religion on Jul 6th, 2008
A few weeks ago, comedy writer Ariane Sherine wrote a piece in the Guardian expressing her view that Londoners were being forced to face disturbing religious messages when they trundled half-awake to work each morning because Christians had paid to have quotes from the bible displayed on buses.
She wrote:
There was also a web address on [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Religion, Society on Feb 1st, 2008
Although I used to wear one as a compulsory part of my uniform (many, many years ago, you understand, in my un-reconstructed youth), I never did feel comfortable with the woggle - that little band of bone or plastic or wood or metal or string for holding your scarf (neckerchief) around your neck. I [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Religion, Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2008
Posted in Censorship, Education, Faith, Religion on Dec 27th, 2007
One of the most commented on newspaper articles in recent days was the online version of a report printed in The Sunday Times that Richard Dawkins is planning a lecture tour of America during 2008. The report itself is reasonably neutral and factual, but some of the comments can only be described as ‘interesting’.
Dawkins [...]
Posted in Faith, Society, Uncategorized on Dec 24th, 2007
If you could only take part in those Christmas traditions that you actually believed in, wouldn’t most of us experience a very different time?
Posted in Faith, Politics, Religion, Society on Dec 21st, 2007
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the differences between men and women are bigger than their variations in biological plumbing, and that the differences between Britain and America are more substantial than the lack of harmony between their common languages. I was reminded of this latter point this week on hearing a statement about god from the newly elected [...]
Posted in Faith, Humanity, Philosophy, Religion on Dec 15th, 2007
Myth 2: Atheism is just another religion.
This myth is being resurrected again by people ranging from academics trying to counter some of the influence of the recent spate of books challenging faith, to extremists wanting atheists banned from American schools by using the ruling that religion and state must be kept separate.
It was the good [...]
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