Bogosity

Our ethics and values in todays society are mostly a bit muddy but maybe they are getting clearer.

Have you ever stopped to wonder why it is that you have certain ethics and values? I mean sometimes being a “good” person can get in the way. Have you ever just thought hang it all, [...]

After accusing my wife of not being a ‘real’ Christian on the way to work this morning (which naturally pissed her off) and telling her how I’m thinking of giving up writing this blog, I’ve decied to come clean and admit to myself and the world that I’m probably not a Christian anymore.

I guess that [...]

Going back to a question I was discussing about whether religion is bad for you: specifically with respect to self delusion, I was in an information session at work about workplace mental health today which has made me think about it all in light of what psychologists have discovered about optimism.

Typing “optimism mental health” yielded [...]

People often ask me if you don’t believe in a creator God and don’t believe that Jesus’ death on the cross is payment for your sins and don’t believe in miracles then why are you still a Christian? What’s the point?

Actually no-one has really ever had the guts to ask me that directly but [...]

Most of new-wave atheist writers have asserted that religion is damaging and harmful not just to society but to the individual. Yet many people find religion helpful and there are a great many religious people who have an outlook of peace, compassion and social justice. So where is the line between ‘good’ religion [...]

Last night I went to see Alister McGrath give his talk The Bankrupcy of Atheism at UQ. His talk was rebuttal of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion and followed his new book The Dawkins Delusion?. Points of interest for me were the discussions of whether religion is bad for us and where is [...]

I’ve just finished reading Ken Mcleod’s excellent post on 21st Century Atheism from back in July. I only recently found Ken’s blog and I’ve been working my way through the 30 or so links from that post to a lot of discussion of the so called New Atheists and their books (you know: God [...]