Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Saturday, June 20, 2020

Did Edward Gibbon blame Christianity for the decline of the Roman Empire?

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I have now finally read Edward Gibbon 's classic History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . Although certainly opinionated in...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience: Lecture 2

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In his second lecture, James defines what he would 'religion' consider to be for the purposes of the lecture series. He stresses r...
Sunday, March 4, 2018

Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience: Lecture 1

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I have started reading William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience . Published first in 1902, this collection of twenty lecture...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

Andrew Sullivan on baking cakes

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As always the following is my personal opinion and not necessarily that of my employer, friends, family or potted plants. To follow news f...
Monday, September 11, 2017

What exactly is new about New Atheism?

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On Sunday I went back to the book fair with my family, and of course I bought another few books. One of them is a collection of essays writt...
Friday, October 14, 2016

Germany trip 2016, part 6: Hamburg Botanic Garden

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Today we visited the Botanic Garden of Hamburg, Germany. Not, however, the old, well-known park Planten un Blomen , but the gardens at the s...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Bayesianism and history

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I have recently read with some interest the exchange between mathematician Tim Hendrix and atheist activist and historian Richard Carrier ...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

The historicity of Jesus

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One topic that regularly comes up in parts of the blogosphere I read is whether there was a real human being at the root of the Jesus charac...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Religious instruction

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A few days ago we got a form to fill out if we want our daughter to participate in upcoming religious instruction classes. They are generica...
Saturday, June 6, 2015

Will you only believe that the sky is blue if a recent peer-reviewed paper says so?

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The usual disclaimer: The following is my personal opinion. It is not my professional opinion and much less necessarily the opinion of any o...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Euthyphro

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The following is, once more, my personal opinion and not necessarily that of my employer, colleagues, friends, family or pot plants. Also,...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

'Classical' theism and a simple god

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Some time ago a visitor to this site called Cale took issue with a post in which I expressed my very personal opinion that many religious ...
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Monday, February 9, 2015

Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen

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It often seems to me as if the milieu or class of technology-savvy and allegedly, according to themselves at least, "rational" peo...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

Au contraire

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One of the things that has often struck me when contemplating religion is that I do not only disagree with several core claims made in its f...
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Thursday, January 8, 2015

So how great is a god really that needs gunmen to do his work?

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As always the following is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of my employer, line manager, family, friends, colleagu...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

Sectarianism

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On a little field trip yesterday I saw what must have been the saddest cemetery I ever visited. A straight path across a weedy lawn, and ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Weird Christian pamphlet, part 2

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The fourth and last page of the religious pamphlet we found in our letterbox deals with the mark of the beast.  DO NOT RECEIVE The Mark o...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Weird Christian pamphlet, part 1

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My wife recently found a small flyer in our letterbox that had apparently been distributed to all the neighbourhood. Interestingly, it does ...