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Can atheism make a new type of religion possible?
The French philosopher Paul Ricoeur wrote: ‘Atheism is not limited in meaning to the mere negation and destruction of religion, but …rather, it opens up the horizon for something else, for a type of...
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Would we be better off without religion?
I’m planning to attend a public debate on religion, organised by Intelligence Squared. The motion is ‘We’d be better off without religion’, and the speakers include Victor Stenger, who wrote God, the...
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What have you ever learned by heart and was it worth it?
I came across a recent blog post lamenting the loss of rote learning of the Catechism in the Episcopalian Church. It seemed a fairly nostalgic piece but It got me thinking: how good was rote learning?...
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Post-Secular Artist? Nine Reflections on the Art of Patrick Heron
The last few years have seen a deep questioning of the central tenets of the theory of secularisation. Far from growing less religious, as the prophets of the post-war period supposed to be our...
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God after atheism – what the word ‘God’ fails to mean
‘The word “God” does not function as a philosophical concept…. Even if one is tempted to say…that “God” is the religious name for being, still the word “God” says more: it presupposes the total context...
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