A Thinking Man

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 [...]

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I have just set up a new Facebook Group to register support for the separation of Church and State in the UK.  The group’s position is as follows:
People are free to believe whatever they want (however strange).
The state should no longer be involved in formally supporting any particular religion.
Religious people should not have access to [...]

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Spain is courageously seeking to follow a difficult path of modernization.
The Spanish government has announced plans to secularize the constitution and remove privileges that have been granted uniquely to the Roman Catholic Church.
When the Spanish government was sworn in last April, the Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero decided to take his oath [...]

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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 [...]

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