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Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Religion on Feb 4th, 2010
In 1968 the sociologist Peter Berger famously predicted that in the 21st century, religious believers would only be likely to be in small sects, huddled together to resist a worldwide secular culture. In 1710 Thomas Woolstan predicted that religion would be gone by 1900. And many other thinkers (Voltaire, Jefferson, Marx, Engels, Freud) have all anticipated [...]
Posted in Faith, Literature, Religion, Science on Jan 25th, 2010
Although it is nearly 24 hours since I watched the first in Channel 4’s new series, The Bible: A History, I still find myself annoyed at the mere memory of it. It ended up being more of the aspirational wishful thinking of a romantic presenter than the history deceptively portrayed in the title.
The first quarter [...]
Who will win this year’s bad faith award?
The New Humanist’s annual vote to discover who people think deserves a bad faith award is still open. If you haven’t cast your vote yet, do pop along to the site and see if anyone merits your selection.
Last year Sarah Palin romped home to victory for her [...]
Posted in Creativity, Existential, Humanity, Religion, Society on Jan 15th, 2009
Instruction Manual for Life
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Posted in Education, Faith, Humanity, Religion on Jan 5th, 2009
My holiday reading was Godless: How An Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists by Dan Barker. I had travelled a similar journey (albeit in a less publicised way). Having made the change from being an evangelical leader, preacher, counsellor, and author (for over 30 years) to an unashamed, blogging atheist, I thought it [...]
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 Existential, Humanity, Relationships, Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2008
Strange things do happen. There was a white envelope. I recognised the logo. It belonged to one of my publishers that I hadn’t heard from in at least 10 years. I was expecting the standard letter. “Dear Mr Xyzabc, we regret to inform you that despite monumental efforts by our [...]
Posted in Education, Government, Isolation, Religion on Nov 30th, 2007
Weird people like atheists and egg eaters are banned. And the ban is being paid for by me!
Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Religion on Aug 8th, 2007
The summer period marks an important anniversary for me. I used to be an evangelical Christian, and in the summer of 1966, I got ’saved’. I literally came out - I got up out of my seat in front of family and friends at a Billy Graham rally at the age of 13, and [...]
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