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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 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 [...]
On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for an unmoderated 2-hour discussion, convened by The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and filmed by Josh Timonen. In this conversation the group trades stories of the public’s reaction to their recent books, their unexpected successes, [...]
Posted in Censorship, Education, Isolation, Language, Religion on Nov 23rd, 2007
Just imagine that you couldn’t read, or that if you could read, you only had access to a very restricted range of material. I know, the pain of not being able to read this blog would be almost unbearable …
One index of a society’s health and modernity is the extent to which its members can read and write. [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Humanity, Isolation, Religion, Terrorism on Nov 18th, 2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the world’s most visible critic of Islam and surely the most courageous champion of women’s rights now living in the United States. In 2005, TIME included her in its list of the World’s 100 Most Influential People. For the crime of speaking honestly about the bigotry and intolerance that still thrive [...]
Religious people say to atheists: “Why don’t you leave us alone? Why can’t we be left to believe what we believe? Why are organisations like the National Secular Society, and people like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris so angry with us and advocating that people should speak out against us?” The simple [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Law, Morality, Philosophy, Terrorism on Oct 29th, 2007
I have recently finished reading Sam Harris’s “The End of Faith”. It has been widely acclaimed as a passionate call to the West to wake up to the dangers of irrational thinking, with a special warning about the dangers of Islam. It was compelling reading, rich in illuminating factual illustrations, and was argued with the cogency that [...]
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