There’s a false dichotomy often thrown up by apologists for religion: those of us who champion the virtue of rationality are labelled as “materialists”, who ignore humanity’s spiritual needs, leading necessarily to an empty and joyless existence. Set against us materialists are the world’s various religions, concerned utterly with spiritual experience (so they claim)...
First, a disclaimer: I am about as far from a bible scholar as one could be and still think about religious matters. It is only recently, and with great reluctance, that I downloaded the King James onto my iPhone. The closest I’ve got to reading the bible in the past was when I had...
Friday Filisophy has had a bit of an unplanned hiatus, which I shall begin to rectify, at least a little, today. I think, read, and watch a fair bit relating at least tangentially to meaning: the meaning and purpose of our lives. In a way that’s the biggest question for every one of us;...
This morning my train entered a reception hole, I had no data connection, so no twitter with which to twit. Consequently I figured I might as well subject you to my meandering waffle. With some more added this afternoon, herewith a Friday blither I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea...
A final thought before I leave this for today. There seems to be a differentiation made between “agnostics” and “atheists” – one which can be rather acrimonious, with agnostics being seen as wishy-washy apologists or nice touchy-feely pleasant people, and atheists as understanding the truth and not accepting woolly thought or as mean nasty...
