Category Archives: Religion
Spluttering into my coffee again
Earlier than usual coffee this morning, waiting for the new Cambridge Apple Store to open for the first time around the corner. (I foolishly thought I’d be able to wander in to take a look at a real-world MacBook Air. … Continue reading
Philosophy of Religion 1: The ability to sin
The first chapter of Murray and Rea’s An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion is called ‘Attributes of God: independence, goodness and power’. You can get an idea of its style and content from its final paragraph: As the foregoing … Continue reading
Religion and The Philosophy of Religion
I’ve commented here a couple of times about some daft newspapers columns about matters of religion and science (see here and here). And — quite unexpectedly — I’ve found myself contributing a number of responses on religion as a newbie … Continue reading
"The Atheist Delusion"?
In the Guardian Review this last weekend, John Gray has a long piece entitled “The Atheist Delusion” in which he lambasts Dennett, Dawkins and the other usual suspects for their simple-mindedness about religion, for their intellectual sloppiness (e.g. the “memes” … Continue reading
I wish I’d said that …
A terrific remark by Louise Antony, writing on Ask Philosophers: I’m the kind of atheist who thinks that God most respects people who apportion their beliefs to the evidence. I wish I’d said that!
Twaddle about religion and science
The Guardian‘s Review of books on a Saturday is always worth reading, and the lead articles can be magnificent. This week, for example, it prints Doris Lessing’s Nobel prize acceptance speech. Still, the reviews do occasionally get me spluttering into … Continue reading
Blackburn, religion and respect
I have mentioned Louise M. Antony’s Philosophers without Gods before. But I have only just discovered that perhaps the best of the essays in the book — though it is a close run thing: the collection is consistently good — … Continue reading
Atheists, quaffing wine
I mentioned two edited collections of articles in recent posts, Louise M. Antony’s Philosophers without Gods and Barry Smith’s Questions of Taste. Having now read them both, let me just very warmly recommend the first, but suggest that you might … Continue reading