Heathen’s Progress 16: Struggling with the question of belief? Homer Simpson’s got the answer
Homer’s Wager concludes that you have no good reason to believe in God, even if it is more likely than[…]
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Heathen’s Progress 15: You don’t have to be religious to pray … but it helps
Prayer, like many rituals, is something that the religious get some real benefits from that are just lost to us[…]
ReadHeathen’s Progress 14: Can it be rational for the religious to be non-rational?
In practice there is no neat distinction between the logical and the psychological. Those who attempt to use pure reason[…]
ReadHeathen’s Progress 13: Has the God debate been moved on?
Some in the blogosphere have suggested that in this series I have moved closer to the new atheists. I’m not[…]
ReadHeathen’s Progress 12: The parable of the allotments
Last week I challenged the idea that religiosity is more about practice than belief with evidence that most religious people[…]
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