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- February 7th, 2008, 9:26 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: THE "DARK BIBLE"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1544
Re: THE "DARK BIBLE"
I had some JWs at my door recently, and they were trying to convince me that there were prophecies in the bible that had come true. Naturally I suggested that either the statements were open to many different interpretations, or else were in fact written after the event. One that they seemed keen on...
- February 7th, 2008, 9:06 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: The Archbishop and Sharia Law
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4998
Re: The Archbishop and Sharia Law
You can email the "World At One", which featured the interview, from here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/wato/
There are already many responses posted, and they are overwhelmingly critical.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/wato/
There are already many responses posted, and they are overwhelmingly critical.
Quiz
I conducted an end of year quiz for the IDEAS Group of Leicester Secular Society. Readers here might like to try the questions: http://www.leicestersecularsociety.org.uk/ideas_quiz.htm One of the rounds is specifically about the Leicester society, but you can ignore that (or search for the answers o...
- November 29th, 2007, 10:12 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Responses to Richard Norman article in New Humanist
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4941
The point is that not all religious believers fit the ideological straitjacket you are trying to put them all in. A huge number don't. Religion and religious believers come in all shades of grey and that is why a nuanced approach is needed. It is impossible to argue rationally with people who use t...
- November 28th, 2007, 11:41 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Responses to Richard Norman article in New Humanist
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4941
That would be the christ who is coming back bringing armageddon? Most accept it reluctantly but would rather the world wasn't really like that, while those with scientific qualifications (like Ken Miller) try to get their god to work through the uncertainties of quantum theory, or some such fudge. ...
- November 28th, 2007, 1:01 am
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: If you go down to the woods today.....
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6594
- November 28th, 2007, 12:39 am
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Responses to Richard Norman article in New Humanist
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4941
No, from what I've seen, the response to Dawkins' argument that any creator must be complex, and therefore improbable (complexity being a condition of evolved beings), has been to challenge the idea that a deity must be complex. Dawkins' argument, I mean, is not a response to the idea that God is a...
- November 28th, 2007, 12:28 am
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Responses to Richard Norman article in New Humanist
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4941
I'll try one final time to define the people the “many good, sensitive, intelligent and sometimes wonderful religious people” that Richard Norman and I know. 1. They believe in a supernatural God and the ones who call themselves Christians believe in the supernatural Jesus Christ. That would be the...
- November 23rd, 2007, 7:17 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Responses to Richard Norman article in New Humanist
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4941
George, I've had a quick skim and I've only got five minutes so I'll use them just focussing on what you say here: Well, I thought I was cutting you some slack by admitting the concept of "humanistic religion" (by which I mean people who place emphasis on the "love your neighbour" aspect of the tea...
- November 22nd, 2007, 3:42 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Responses to Richard Norman article in New Humanist
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4941
OK, here is my second response to Maria you categorically state that Norman says it is reasonable to believe that 1=0 if we have faith enough. Of course, Norman does no such thing. What I stated was that Norman's reasoning: ("The argument fails. But it is still an argument. As so often, deciding whe...
- November 20th, 2007, 7:50 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Responses to Richard Norman article in New Humanist
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4941
Maria's post obviously calls for a point-by point reply, which I will attempt here. Thank you George. I can find little to agree with in your piece and I think some of the things you say about Norman’s article are very mendacious. I read the article very closely and thought I got the sense of what h...
- November 19th, 2007, 1:24 am
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Responses to Richard Norman article in New Humanist
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4941
Responses to Richard Norman article in New Humanist
{This discussion has been split from the Is this cartoon offensive? thread - admin} I've now posted a full response to the Richard Norman article: http://secsoc.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html On the Leicester Secularist blog. My complaint is against the article being an attack by one group of...
- November 14th, 2007, 6:06 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: Is this cartoon offensive?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12037
I voted "Yes" because I find ALL of Rowson's cartoons offensive. Many cartoons by others of the same ilk (Scarfe, Bell, etc) are also intentionally offensive. It's their style. It's the current fashion. When I first saw the cartoon I thought the intention was to send up Dawkins' tendency to find "aw...
- November 7th, 2007, 1:12 pm
- Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
- Topic: Mum aged 22 dies for Jehovah
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4934
I feel sympathy for the doctors in this case. It seems they are prevented from giving the best available treatment, either because of a law which respects the right of people to hold ridiculous beliefs, or because of fear of being sued for large sums for violating such supposed human rights. If the ...
- August 26th, 2007, 8:56 pm
- Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
- Topic: Tax the Homeopaths
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1747
Rather than tax homeopathic remedies, which I think was a somewhat tongue-in-cheek proposal by the writer, I have an alternative proposal. This is that the NHS sets up Placebo Clinics, run by people with a good bedside manner, not necessarily qualified doctors, who are permitted to spend an hour or ...
- August 26th, 2007, 8:32 pm
- Forum: Education
- Topic: Sectarian schools
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2725
Sectarian schools
What is your experience of sectarianism in schools?
The Scottish and NI commenters to this article on richarddawkins.net seem to have mixed views.
http://richarddawkins.net/article,1570, ... obin-McKie
The Scottish and NI commenters to this article on richarddawkins.net seem to have mixed views.
http://richarddawkins.net/article,1570, ... obin-McKie
- August 25th, 2007, 9:14 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
- Topic: This is awesome
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2381
- August 25th, 2007, 8:46 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
- Topic: Assorted brain teasers
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9440
It's the only number whose letters: f o r t y are in alphabetical order. ein works, in German 40 is the smallest number that may be the side of 8 distinct Pythagorean triangles (this is according to Table 56 in "Recreations in the Theory of Numbers" by A. H. Beiler). It is also the first case of th...
- August 22nd, 2007, 3:30 pm
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: The Brights
- Replies: 51
- Views: 12089
/// My final comment is on the comparison between the word "Gay" and the word "Bright". The Brights Movement claim that you have to use the word bright as a noun - eg. I am a bright, as opposed to I am bright, which can give the wrong message. The problem is that the person who chose the word Brigh...
- August 21st, 2007, 11:14 am
- Forum: Humanism, secularism, freethought...
- Topic: A Humanist Thesis
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6488
I’m certainly suggesting that people can choose their beliefs. And what I’m saying is that people generally – not just humanists – should and have every right to believe ‘instrumentally’ whatever they need to believe in order to live their lives in ways they find acceptable and satisfying, rather t...