Should you be allowed to “marry” your sister?
As heterosexual couples gain access to Civil Partnerships, why not offer legal partnerships to platonic couples, too?
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Proud to be a faitheist
Last week I had the pleasure and privilege of being one of the plenary speakers at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Theology at Nottingham. My acceptance of their invitation marks me out as a “faitheist”…
ReadFree Thought Prophet Podcast
PODCAST – THE FREE THOUGHT PROPHET. I had fun talking to John Hamill and Seamus about my recent Guardian article and the howls of misplaced outrage it provoked from some atheists.
ReadHaving faith is a complex business
How can people really believe this stuff? Rising from the grave isn’t even the most preposterous part of the Easter story. Far more bizarre is the claim that God had to send his son to die for our sins. And if God really wanted all humanity to heed his message, why did the resurrected Christ only reveal himself to a few select people before ascending to heaven?
ReadBack to basics
In the Balkanised age of the internet, bands that most people have never heard of can fill arenas, and TV series on platforms most people don’t use can have audiences of millions. Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto, shows that intellectuals can play that game too. His YouTube lectures — with titles such as “Identity politics and the Marxist lie of white privilege” — have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
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