Bogosity

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. – T.S. Eliot, poet (1888 – 1965)

The butterfly counts not years but moments and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, [...]

Is liberal / moderate Christianity mostly harmless? I was discussing the Science Fatwah series with some friends the other night and one of them exclaimed that liberal Christians are mostly harmless because they just pick and choose what they want from the Bible until their faith challenges no-one and means nothing.

For me this [...]

In my darkest moments, I revert to atheism. It comes about as I question my faith and I can’t make everything add up. God doesn’t act the way that I think God should. I always have to ask myself if it’s all just self delusion. I no longer believe in the [...]

I’m going to save up some of the random links and stuff that I read on the slower days and put them all in one post called ‘Odd Bits’ at the end of the day so that I don’t push the actual posts that I thought about off the bottom of the page. So [...]

Wow – I’m just listening to part 2 of the Religion Report ‘Science Fatwah’ which interviews Sam Harris) . He has a lot to say about moderate religious’ failure to confront fundamentalism. I can see why there are so many frustrated atheists out there when you put it in the context of the Christian [...]

This is worth a read – and the comments too. Maybe I shoudl save all these links up for a mega end-of-day-state-of-the-blogosphere post.

catallaxy » So this is Christmas…

Christmas is related to Christianity in the same limited way as Caesar’s wife is to history: only by marriage. Christ was never really in Christmas. In fact, [...]

Just saw this floating by in the blogosphere, it’s a piece about Carl Sagan and quotes from one of his shows where they talk about taking a photo of earth from the voyager probe. Actually you should click on the link for the pictures as they add to the effect.

“We are a way for [...]