Browsing through Google News I cam across this story talking about the appointment of a new Head of Religion and Ethics. Now I’ve never heard of Ekklesia, but they claim to be a Think-tank that promotes transformative theological ideas in public life, so I wasn’t expecting much. I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised.
Archive for April, 2009
How many Christians are there in Great Britain?
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Can you be good without God?
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Without a moral law giver, how can you have morals? Without an overseeing deity, how can you know what is good or bad?
Belief-O-Matic
Friday, April 24th, 2009I stumbled upon this today, and decided to give it a run through.
http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Quizzes/BeliefOMatic.aspx
Basically, you answer 20 religious/moral questions, and it will tell you which religious/world views best match up with your answers. Some of the questions, and available answers are a little dubious, but nothing too surprising.
Thankfully it seems to work. It scored me as 100% identifying with Secular Humanism, 91% with Unitariam Universalism, 83% with Nontheist, and a few more in decreasing relevance.
It’s a bit of silly fun really, just what’s required for a Friday morning.
St. Georges Day
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009As I’m English, I’m well aware that today is St Georges Day – St George being the patron saint of England for my foreign visitors. Seeing as I made mention of St Patrick not so long ago, I felt I could hardly ignore St George.
Delaying Death
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009Now that smoking is seriously on the decline, all the health campaigns that used to warn us about the seriousness of tobacco have had to move on to other things.
It’s Easter
Sunday, April 12th, 2009Today is of course Easter Sunday in many western countries. It’s worth taking a few moments to reflect on the deep meaning and origins on this day.
What’s so great about 72 virgins anyway?
Friday, April 10th, 2009So, Islam extremists are prepared to die for their beliefs because they think they’re going to get rewarded with 72 virgins when they get to heaven. But think about it, what’s so great about 72 virgins?
Let’s face it:
- They don’t know what they’re doing
- They won’t be virgins for very long anyway
Surely a better reward would be a couple of porn stars, lots of viagra, a lifetime supply of massage oil, and some rubber gloves?
Hospital Chaplains
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009I heard this on the radio this morning on my journey to work. The National Secular Society is calling for all Hospital chaplains (of any denomination) to be funded by the Church rather than by the Hospital.
Pure concentrated stupidity!
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009If you find yourself with about a month free, and feel like melting your brain, you could always pop over to http://www.jesus-is-savior.com – but I wouldn’t recommend it.
But when you start reading some of that massive content, that’s when the brain melt will set in. It’s just a constant barrage of idiotic drivel. The use of so many logical fallacies, over and over. The repeating of straw man arguments that have long since been torn down again and again. It’s a mark of a truly faith-based mind that it can still believe that any of this would still hold any weight. The only people that it could convince in any way are those that don’t need convincing in the first place. For those whose minds actually work properly we can see it for the brain fart that it actually is.
Now, I will grant the author one thing (and pretty much only one thing), it must have been a monumental labour of love to create the site. To be able to concentrate such huge amounts of inane, baseless, stupidity into one place… it’s almost a work of art!
Dang it, looks like I’m converting
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009Gods message to creation:
For those who don’t know, it’s a reference to the last book in Douglas Adams Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (book 5!)
Ask the quietAtheist…
Saturday, April 25th, 2009I’ve been blogging here for about 2 months now. I’ve done very little to promote this blog as of yet, partly because I’m still finding my feet a little, and partly because I’m not sure of the best method yet.
However, I notice from the stats that there are at least a few of you out there reading what I’m saying … but you’re not commenting.
So, I thought I’d just take a quick moment to turn things over to those of you that are reading.
What do you think of what I’ve had to say so far?
Are there any topics you’d like me to touch on?
Is there anything about me or my views that you want to know about?
Am I just wasting my time?
Please be gentle.
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