Being tone deaf to religion does matter
Atheists often protest that their critics are more likely to criticise the tone of their arguments than their substance. Accusing[…]
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The meaning of secular neutrality
The “neutrality” of a secular society is of a very limited and specific sort, and that is precisely its strength.[…]
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There is no escaping the fact that Buddhism is, as the philosopher Owen Flanagan put it, full of “superstitious nonsense”[…]
ReadHeathen’s Progress 18: Family therapy for religion
What makes different institutions, beliefs and so on all religions is not that they have the same essence, but that[…]
ReadHeathen’s Progress 17: The modern believer is not suspicious enough
I’m afraid it’s all too common for defenders of faith to start off by piling up a whole load of[…]
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