At the risk of upsetting any of my readers who fancy I am too hard on the religious, today’s “Friday Filosophy” will take at least as its starting point, an article written a couple of weeks back by one David B. Hart on the First Things website, entitled “Believe it or Not”. I’m struggling...
There’s battle-lines being drawn … It seems lately there’s a lot of tension and even overt conflict and animosity between religious groups (extreme/fundamentalist ones, at any rate) and some very (increasingly?) vocal atheists – Richard Dawkins springs immediately to mind, as does a moronic article on ABC News today, with an Anglican Priest blaming sectarian...
Happy New Year/decade (ok, Dr Plait, I will give in … I’ll even give in to Erik Larsen’s demands we say “twenty-ten” if I get a flying car out of it). As well as New Year’s Day, today is Friday. It’s also a day off work. So I figured I might as...
