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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 [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jan 7th, 2010
There is a sick theme running through all of this - or at least a clear attempt to involve some form of mental illness, and an attempt to bring in the people in white coats - well, at least psychologists if not psychiatrists.
Hey, I really, really don’t want to jump on the bandwagon and pour [...]
I thought I knew the answers. Well, perhaps I knew that I didn’t really know, because I had never really thought about it (and certainly hadn’t read about it). But when I was a believer, aiming to base my life and theology on what I believed to be the holy book that had somehow (don’t [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Isolation, Religion, Society, Travel on Jul 20th, 2009
No, it wasn’t a lightning bolt (though that would have been much more effective). It was a metal bolt that sheared off and caused a minor problem that needed to be repaired. And because it needed to be repaired, the ferry, the Isle of Arran, was drafted in to replace the Isle of [...]
A man with a beard tried to convert me.
No, it wasn’t the nice man or the nice lady who greeted me inside Peterborough Cathedral, but the stern man outside.
Inside the Cathedral they took my money so I could walk round the empty building taking photographs and then they explained they relied on donations so could [...]
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 [...]
I find myself continuing to laugh about and reflect on a comic strip cartoon that was first brought to my attention by Daniel Florien in which the creator, Neil Swaab, explains why god must prefer atheists to believers.
Posted in Faith, Humanity, Philosophy, Religion on Aug 29th, 2008
I bought Bart Ehrman’s God’s Problem on the strength of reading his Misquoting Jesus, and I wasn’t disappointed.
There are three things about Ehrman’s writing that help me sit up and listen to what he is saying.
First, he is world renowned scholar in his field. He has been teaching the bible at university level for years [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Society on Jul 9th, 2008
I can understand where they are coming from, even though I profoundly disagree with them.
If you believe something strongly, you want to be consistent. The argument goes, if you decide to take your rules from the book, you then can’t pick and choose which rules you want to follow.
That seems to be the position taken [...]
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