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Twitter Links Buying the Body of Christ
“We’re proud to put our name on what will become the body of Jesus.” The wafers I bought were manufactured by the Cavanagh Company…

April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments
Link John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse
There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the…

March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments
Twitter Links Does It Matter Whether God Exists?
Discussions of religion are typically about God. Atheists reject religion because they don’t believe in God; Jews, Christians and Muslims take belief in God…

March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments
Twitter Links The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values
The most influential contribution of the Enlightenment to modern thought, after its transformation of religious toleration from a negative to a positive value, was…

March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments
Link The God wars
Atheism is just one-third of this exotic ideological cocktail. Secularism, the political wing of the movement, is another third. Neo-atheists often assume that the two are the same thing; in…

March 7 2012, 3:42pm | Comments
Twitter Links No secularism please, we're British
This is what always happens with religion: it is meant to make people behave better, but when they get too serious about it, it…

February 15 2012, 4:20am | Comments
Link The Mystery of the Five Wounds
Why, though, to begin with, did stigmata materialize in 13th-century Italy? Part of the answer seems to lie in the theological trends of the time. The Catholic Church of St.…

November 21 2011, 1:07pm | Comments
Link Can religion tell us more than science?
In this view belonging to a religion involves accepting a set of beliefs, which are held before the mind and assessed in terms of the evidence that exists for and…

September 20 2011, 3:12am | Comments
Link When the King Saved God
Four hundred years ago, just as William Shakespeare was reaching the height of his powers and showing the new scope and variety of the English language, and just as “England”…

April 12 2011, 3:57pm | Comments
Link Views on Evolution, Intelligent Design Hinge on Death…
It may be the foundation of modern biology, but fewer than 40 percent of Americans say they believe in the theory of evolution. While frustrated scientists sometimes blame religion for…

April 7 2011, 3:39am | Comments
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November 29 2010, 3:05am | Comments
Link You're Dead. Now What?
Will my enduring ghost be a mute witness to the goings-on down here, waving its vapory arms frantically at the undead? Or will it be an agent, endowed with the…

August 13 2010, 4:29am | Comments
Link Last Supper helpings have grown
An unusual study looks at the food portions in artistic depictions of the Last Supper throughout history. The apostles have eaten better and better over the years, scholars say. The…

July 11 2010, 4:46pm | Comments
Link The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when…
In the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach was gripped by an eccentric plan. He gathered three psychiatric patients, each with the delusion that they were Jesus Christ, to live together…

June 12 2010, 9:18am | Comments
Link What did Jesus do? (Reading and Unreading the…
When we meet Jesus of Nazareth at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, almost surely the oldest of the four, he’s a full-grown man. He comes down from Galilee,…

May 19 2010, 3:52am | Comments
Link Believe it or Not
I think I am very close to concluding that this whole “New Atheism” movement is only a passing fad—not the cultural watershed its purveyors imagine it to be, but simply…

May 16 2010, 4:19pm | Comments
Link Posthumanism: A Christian Response
The posthuman worldview goes a step beyond demoting human begins in the hierarchy of value. It promotes other species, proposing that animals are more rational than we knew. We are…

April 29 2010, 10:16am | Comments
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March 26 2010, 5:21am | Comments
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February 25 2010, 11:06am | Comments
Link Theology for atheists
Theology lets us talk about deep and irrational urges. This is seen by some atheists as weakness. But maybe it's a strength as well James Wood, a writer who himself…

January 8 2010, 3:29am | Comments
Link Atheism: class is a distraction
For some reasons it seems to be anathema to say that there might be an intrinsic reason for the correlation between educational level and the rejection of religion: atheism takes…

October 15 2009, 8:14am | Comments
Link How to fake science, history and religion
One of the epigraphs that punctuate Invented Knowledge is from Pascal: "It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of…

August 6 2009, 1:20pm | Comments
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August 2 2009, 10:49am | Comments
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June 23 2009, 2:44am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments
Link If Atheists Ruled the World | Youtube
Dramatised reading of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards

April 2 2009, 6:59am | Comments
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March 23 2009, 1:42am | Comments

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