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No secularism please, we're British

February 15 2012, 3:20am | Comments
Bookmark The New Atheism
Trapped in the childhood literalism of my background, I had not entertained the possibility of Christian belief separated from the great lure and threat of heaven and hell. The New Atheism…

August 30 2011, 8:21am | Comments
Bookmark 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” itself…

April 12 2011, 3:57pm | Comments
Bookmark The New Atheists' Narrow Worldview
With tongues in cheeks, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett are embracing their reputation as the "Four Horsemen." Lampooning the anxieties of evangelicals, these best-selling atheists are embracing…

January 24 2011, 2:58am | Comments
Bookmark 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 one…

May 16 2010, 4:19pm | Comments
Bookmark Christopher Hitchens re-reads Animal Farm
Animal Farm, as its author later wrote, "was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into…

April 26 2010, 4:49am | Comments
Bookmark Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion
Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens confront the faithful head-on, but there may be another way to dispel religious beliefs. I am not so sure about this. In my experience,…

April 4 2010, 6:56am | Comments
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February 25 2010, 10:06am | Comments
Bookmark 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 has…

January 8 2010, 2:29am | Comments
Bookmark 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 training,…

October 15 2009, 8:14am | Comments

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