Is religion really under threat?
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of secularism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a[…]
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Foyles Bristol, 13 February
CRIME, EVIL, WICKEDNESS AND JUSTICE – BRISTOL, 13 FEBRUARY A microphilosophy@Foyles event at Foyles, Cabot Circus, Bristol, at 18:30. Part[…]
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Someone like Homer is never realistic in the way a film or novel character is. But he is a real[…]
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There is no escaping the fact that Buddhism is, as the philosopher Owen Flanagan put it, full of “superstitious nonsense”[…]
ReadThere’s a dark side to this piety about ‘going local’
A decade ago, “This is a local shop for local people” was the catchphrase of a parochial, psychotic couple in[…]
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