Heathen’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[…]
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Heathen’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[…]
ReadHeathen’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[…]
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[…]
ReadThe Lust for Certainty
Do we suffer from a lust for certainty? This is an edited version of a talk given to a Sea of Faith Network conference in London earlier this year.
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