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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Is religion really under threat?
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of secularism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a[…]
ReadCan a religion survive being stripped of superstition?
There is no escaping the fact that Buddhism is, as the philosopher Owen Flanagan put it, full of “superstitious nonsense”[…]
ReadWarnock on religion
In the latest microphilosophy podcast I talk to Mary Warnock about her latest book, Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion out of Politics. The interview was recorded live at the Arnolfini Centre as part of the Bristol Festival of Ideas.
ReadAtheism in America
As I found out when I travelled across the US last year, atheists live in isolation and secrecy all over the country. In a nation that celebrates freedom of religion like no other, freedom not to be religious at all can be as hard to exercise as the right to swim the Atlantic.
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