Category Archives: Humanism, Religion, Atheism etc.
Our first experience with Unitarian Universalism
So I said recently that we’d been thinking of visiting a Unitarian Church. Last Sunday morning we went ahead and attended a service of the Fourth Universalist Society, a Unitarian Universalist congregation that meets on the Upper West Side. We … Continue reading
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Experiences of Unitarianism?
One of the difficulties of moving to a new place is meeting people. This difficulty is heightened in a large city like New York, and heightened even more if (like my wife) you’re not working. We’re also expecting a baby … Continue reading
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Atheism and agnosticism
When people ask me (as some Jehova’s Witnesses did only a few weeks ago) whether I’m an atheist or an agnostic, I say both. This often surprises people, whether they believe in God or not. I also find that many … Continue reading
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What the Pope might mean
So the Pope said something like this: There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a [male?] prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralization, … Continue reading
Why all the fuss about Stephen Hawking?
In which the author wonders why people seem surprised about Stephen Hawking’s new claims and raises the point that the ultimate question he is claimed to be answering is in fact unanswerable anyway. Though not in such a way that lets religion in. Continue reading
On choral signing and chanting: should humanism stay well away?
One of the things I like about humanism is that humanists tend to be happy about marking important points in your life, like births, weddings, and deaths, and so on, without feeling you have to get religion involved. I don’t … Continue reading
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Islam is … bullshit
At least that’s the first auto-completion you get on Google now. As you may have heard, for a while “Christianity is” produced all sorts of offensive completions, as did “Hinduism is” and most other religions. Islam was strangely silent, and … Continue reading
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Why Pat Robertson’s comments on Haiti shouldn’t shock us
It hardly needs stating how appalling Pat Robertson is. Many of you will have heard that he blames what’s happened in Haiti on their having made a pact with the Devil to help them free themselves from French tyranny. The … Continue reading
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How fundamentalist is Dawkins?
I was a bit disappointed to hear lovable atheist Jeremy Hardy, on last week’s News Quiz call Richard Dawkins a “fundamentalist atheist”. Admittedly, he then called him a “Jehova’s I never saw nothing”, so he wasn’t so much making a … Continue reading
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Pharyngula on the Chicago Ethical Humanist Society
I recently posted a link on the behaviour of the Chicago Ethical Humanist Society, who apparently cancelled a talk by a speaker when they found she was a communist; then, when she did turn up, the president of the society … Continue reading
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