Category Archives: God

Last year, the energetic and saintly Roman Catholic bishop of Isiola diocese, in Northern Kenya, was bludgeoned and shot to death outside his compound after nearly forty years there. It was believed at first that he was a martyr to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I got back from the PZ Myers tour of the Natural History Museum last night with an evil shit-eating grin, saying “It was so nice to be able to argue with people” … and indeed I had been trying to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The front page of the Church of Nigeria’s offical website carries a news article an article (thanks) from a Nigerian Newspaper from which I excerpt the following passage: Outside of the hallowed precincts of the Church and his Bishop’s Court, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This (via) is a completely wonderful story. In brief, the vicar of a very high Anglo-Catholic Church in Reading has been caught posting flattering anonymous reviews of his own sermons, dress sense, and singing voice on the Ship of Fools … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It is a standard atheist trope to claim that the existence of God can no more be disproved than the existence of a teapot orbiting Mars. So why worry that he might exist? Well, the obvious difference is that no … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sam Harris asks1 why we should respect George Bush for saying that he talks with God in the privacy of his bedroom. If he said that he talked to God using a magic telephone, then people would think him mad. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Is religiously inspired morality a crane or a skyhook? That is to ask: when a religious person attempts to build their character in a particular direction, are they building on pre-existent morality, or hoiking down something from God or the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One small thing that puzzles me about the speech in Regensburg last week: why was the English translation notably more offensive than what the Pope actually said? If you compare the English and German versions on the Vatican website, the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Is found, I think, towards the end of a long article by Sam Harris in the L.A. Times about the evils of Islam, fanatical faith, suicide bombers, architects putting down their set squares to hack off the necks of journalists, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

George Carey teaches me Christian humility. No matter how sure I am of my own righteousness, I begin to doubt it when I see him galumphing up to join me at the barricade. So, should I reconsider the defence of … Continue reading → Continue reading →