The Guardian has an article about new government guidelines for teaching creationism in religious education (RE) classes. Schools will also be required to teach the creation myths of all the major religions and will be required to compare and contrast … Continue reading
There are three types of God. Which one do you believe in? Continue reading
Bob moved his blog and when I popped over to check it out, I saw that he had been continuing our discussion about Belief in Belief without me 🙁 From Bob’s comments, Since there is no proof of the existence … Continue reading
A positive post about religion for a change. I just read this op-ed piece about Jesus in The Guardian. I think there are three powerful elements in what we know about his teaching that are enduringly important and have lessons … Continue reading
The Church of England was like the kindly old man who lived down the road. Continue reading
I just did a quick count of our Christmas cards. They are evenly split between the sacred (Merry Christmas) and the secular (Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays and the like). The Christian cards mostly have scenes of the holy family or … Continue reading
I was wrong. I expected the anti-religious polemic The God Delusion to be over the top but I found it to be entirely measured and reasonable. Dawkins doesn’t so much ridicule religion as shine a light on its ridiculousness. Dawkins … Continue reading
In the absence of an actual copy of The God Delusion, I have had to console myself with reading articles about it. The majority of reviews largely take the book at face value and either support it or oppose it. … Continue reading
The Boston Globe makes a nice point by reviewing The God Delusion side-by-side with Carl Sagan’s A Personal View of the Search for God and concludes Dawkins is probably right that fundamentalist religion “actively debauches the scientific enterprise,” but I’ll … Continue reading
Theos, a new Christian think tank, heralded their launch by commissioning a poll from Communicate Research. They started by taking one of Richard Dawkins’ more confrontational statements and asking if people agreed with it: “Faith is one of the world’s … Continue reading