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Category: Religion

  • A humanist future: Now that God is dead

    Richard Holloway on Nietzsche and God. I will quote the whole thing(except the poem): The madman in Nietzsche’s “Thus Spake Zarathustra,” who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours and ran to the market to proclaim the death of God to the scoffing bystanders, realized he had come too early: “My time is not…

  • Reville's nonsense

    My uncle, below, summed up my thoughts on Reville’s article pretty well. He is forever trying to reconcile religious belief with scientific advancement and understanding. It is an impossible task. I especially liked this : The main alternative to religion is secular humanism. This philosophy holds that nothing greater than mankind exists and we must…

  • Relative responds to Reville

    Uncle Anthony at it again, this time in response to William Reville article posted below. Madam, – In his attempt to reconcile science and religion Prof William Reville reduces Christianity to the all-encompassing formula, “Love God, love your neighbour, forgive your enemy and take responsibility for your actions” (Science Today, November 25th). With the omission…

  • Responses to Reville

    I think that many of the responses to Reville are good – I will publish them all. First: Madam, – My former colleague, the estimable William Reville, makes another of his occasional trips from the laboratory to the pulpit (Science Today, November 25th). In attacking Richard Dawkins’s crusading atheism, Prof Reville claims that religion by…

  • Dawkins is wrong about religion

    …or so claimed Dr William Reville in last Thursdays Irish Times. (Sub. required) The article has caused a great deal of controversy in the letters pages for the last week, see what you think yourself: Under The Microscope: Europe has become strongly secular, in contrast to the US where religion plays a prominent part, as…

  • Militant Christianity versus militant Islam

    Interesting stuff… Should Americans really give intolerance a pass if it is rooted in religious faith? Many American Christians once read the Bible to mean that African-Americans were cursed as descendants of Noah’s son Ham, and were intended by God to be enslaved. In the 19th century, millions of Americans sincerely accepted this Biblical justification…

  • The Indulgence Effect

    Just remember that if you make donations to the Church, the bigger the donation the more likely you are not to go to Church at all… A recent study by an MIT economist finds that, on average, for every one percent increase in a household’s donations to religious groups, participation in faith-related activities, including attendance…

  • Gimme that organised religion

    Colin Sedgwick: “I want God, but I don’t want organised religion.” It sounds fine. Who, in their senses, wants to be like those poor saps on the parochial church council? But, sorry, you cannot have it that way; God is simply not available on those terms. Your private religion may afford you a brief satisfaction;…

  • One nation under god

    Mark Steyn writes a very curious article in this weeks edition of the Spectator. I am actually shocked by the logical leaps he makes in his piece, and am amazed that he might actually believe what he has written. I even went to the effort of printing it out and going through it step by…

  • When God goes to war: Karen Armstrong

    Karen Armstrong, author of the History of God, with another article I have been meaning to blog on for a while. I like her ideas, and just in case the Guardian take this down, here is the full article, I really enjoyed it.