Category Archives: God

via boingboing comes this site, not, so far as I can tell, a parody. the best of military technology is not readily available to the citizen militiaman, in spite of the fact that the very purpose of the Second Amendment … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Heard a wonderful story the other day from my friend Eve, who used to be a very superior bureaucrat in the Church of England. One of the more media-friendly bishops, let’s call him Bill, grew very drunk one day — … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Up to Glasgow yesterday, for my second failed shortlisting of the year: the next pope programme was up for a Continue reading →

that they almost taste like wine: for Harriet, I offer this argument for not voting, from Alasdair MacIntyre. Curiously, the Revealer, where I found it, describes him as a leading conservative Christian. What, exactly, is he conserving when he turns … Continue reading → Continue reading →

or anything, but one way of understanding the current state of schism in the Anglican Communion is to observe that all the biggest losers were Americans. It’s obvious that the northern, liberal part of Ecusa got chastised, told not to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It is a favourite trope of Dawkins-type atheists to claim that faith is unjustified belief, and thus by definition a bad thing, which could not possibly have arisen by natural selection, except as a sort of metastasis of trust in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Watching the collapse of the Anglican Communion, and, with it, of liberal, civilised Christianity, has been dispiriting for the last twenty years. This is partly because both sides are animated by a fierce destructive zeal. But an added twist is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is an extended response to Louise’s question here Is what you are looking at why religions are ‘adaptive’ despite being counter-factual in so many ways? Well, differing religions are counter-factual in different ways. Classic Calvinism is beautiful, because it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of the things that I think Richard Dawkins has wrong is that he writes off all religions as equally irrational. I think it is worthwhile to ask why some religions spread and others don’t. Simply to write them all … Continue reading → Continue reading →