Category Archives: God

Reading and sleeping

Posted on September 11, 2008 by acb

I have made it almost to the end of the Dostoevsky book by getting up early and allowing myself to fall asleep while I read it, waking refreshed for another ten pages or so. Is this a sign of a … Continue reading →

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Longer Rowan Williams

Posted on September 9, 2008 by acb

(run through a scanner, darkly: particularly horribly phrases highlighted. Page references lost in translation. ) Dialogue goes on because of a trust that recognition will be possible. And acknowledging that misrecognition happens is part of the fuel of continuing the … Continue reading →

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Shorter Rowan Williams

Posted on September 8, 2008 by acb

You are what you waffle

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Freud vs God and John Wilkins

Posted on August 24, 2008 by acb

Catching up on feeds this morning, I found John Wilkins making against Christians my point about how idiots believe: Christians, who have an extensive body of traditional dogma which they like to reassure themselves is true and consistent, like to … Continue reading →

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Freud vs God; Round 2

Posted on August 24, 2008 by acb

I said I would look at the second of Freud’s categorical errors when discussing belief, and here it is. He thinks that idiots believe in the same sense as intellectuals: that what they say about God is an unclear expression … Continue reading →

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Freud vs God: round 1

Posted on August 22, 2008 by acb

I have been reading Freud, for the first time in decades: Civilisation and its Discontents, which I have in a nice Dover paperback. Some of it is thought-provoking, and some is self-parody: “Psychoanalysis unfortunately has hardly anything to say about … Continue reading →

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Interesting graphs

Posted on August 20, 2008 by acb

One of the most thoughtful bloggers on religion is Razib, over at Gene Expression, and he has stuck up a whole series of badly formatted but thoroughly interesting graphs based on solid American statistics about the effects of religious belief … Continue reading →

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Who we, white man? (part xxxvi)

Posted on August 20, 2008 by acb

Larry Moran quotes an interview with Dan Dennett: “The very fact that we agree that there are moral limits that trump any claim of religious freedom—we wouldn’t accept a religion that engaged in human sacrifice or slavery, for instance—shows that … Continue reading →

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Back to bed with Diarmaid

Posted on July 5, 2008 by acb

Another hundred pages of MacCulloch’s Reformation this morning; wonderful stuff. The parallels with today are not in the least bit cheering; among them the way in which the printing press, like the Internet, allowed everyone, however ignorant, to join in theological … Continue reading →

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Not pronounced the obvious way

Posted on June 30, 2008 by acb

There is to be a new Anglican Communion, based around the 1662 prayerbook and the 39 Articles — delicious, that Peter Akinola and Peter Jensen should be heading up an organisation which takes as an article of faith that foreign … Continue reading →

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