religion

Interfaith dialogue for six year olds from magistra 10 days old

[ ... ] followers of a religion, they believe in God and in the stories in the Old Testament, but they don’t believe that Jesus was the Son of God. She then ...

Conversion: everything or nothing? from magistra 714 days old

[ ... ] find a neutral religion between the amalgam of Vandals (Silings and Hasdings) and Alans that he lead. Which got me back to thinking again about a ...

Speciesm and evolution from magistra 890 days old

[ ... ] people of some religion or none. But what’s interesting is that it’s also the ‘right’ answer in evolutionary terms. For wild animals to show ...

Offensive liberals? from magistra 1009 days old

Mark Ravenhall in the Guardian is claiming that it is time that ‘liberals fought back’. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/story/0,,2006078,00.html. His ...

The problem of non-believers from magistra 1127 days old

[ ... ] I think there is a problem here for some liberals (and particularly some ‘missionary atheists’); ...

Who is irrational? from magistra 1162 days old

There was a bad article in the Guardian a few days ago by Mary Warnock, the philosopher, about organ donation (http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1863232,00.html). ...

Facts about faith schools from magistra 1169 days old

[ ... ] areas in which religion is formally given any status. It’s hard to work up that much indignation about the presence of a few bishops in the House of ...

The preconditions for democracy from magistra 1249 days old

I stumbled across two bizarre articles by right-wing ‘thinkers’ last week, which shared a common thread, although they had very different main themes. ...

Jehovah and the drug-crazed elephants from magistra 1325 days old

[ ... ] Judaism at a religion (and the Jews as a distinct people) might not have survived and Christianity might never have developed. In a modern world ...

Equal opportunity brutality from magistra 1365 days old

I got irritated by an article in the Spectator by Jackie Mason ‘Why you never hear ‘Muslim jokes’’ (http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=7317&issue=2006-02-11). ...