This is in many ways just a summary of recent thoughts which are posited in recent posts.
If there is a God and a single correct religion then why…?
Is there sin? God is all-knowing right?
Is there suffering? God is all-forgiving right?
Are there multiple religions? God is all-forgiving right?
Did God change his message (Judaism->Christianity)? God is all-forgiving [...]
I mentioned this earlier but I thought that it would bear expanding upon into a whole article.
Is the nature of heaven not just self-contradictory?
Just a really simple example to get you thinking. Jim marries Alice and they love each other dearly. Very sadly Alice dies aged 25 and Jim after overcoming his grief marries Jane, [...]
Christianity is not unique in preaching that Jehovah, or the sky fairy, is all knowing, all present and all powerful – omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent - but I do not know the tenets of the other major faiths as well as I do those of Christianity so I will talk to those ‘powers’ for the content of [...]
It struck me just a minute ago how religion is like a club. Only more so. I was thinking about the vested interest that a congregation member has in their ‘club’. When you as an atheist debate with a religious person you have to be aware that they bring more psychological baggage to the table [...]
Here is one thing that I feel everyoneshould know but very very few people do.
A Moral choice is a gut instinct.
An Ethical choice is one that you reason and consider.
Some of the comments I have received on the Blog talk about Morality when in fact they mean Ethics. Your morality is the way you feel [...]
New Scientist published a special edition last month all about the environment but specifically about ‘Sustainability’. It’s all very well adopting things that are ‘Green’ but that is not the same thing as ‘Sustainable’. For example using (corn based) bio-diesel is very green but it is absolutely not sustainable because it takes away crops from [...]
I haven’t had time to update the page for a while for which I apologise. The continuation of my Quantum Physics theme will happen very soon I promise. Right now all my time is taken up with work and the legal entanglements of buying a house. Add on top of that the fact that I’ve [...]
There is the most ridiculous story in The Times newspaper today about an Orthodox Jewish couple who are suing the owners of the block of flats they live in. They claim that they are trapped in their appartment on Friday and Sunday nights because of the sensor-activated lights in the communal areas. They will not [...]
What is to follow will be a very long piece that I am going to break down into separate sections. My rough plan indicates about ten posts will be needed! I hope readers will find it worth working through the necessary mass of topic introduction and discussion to get to the meat of my points. [...]
This is the most recent draft of my letter I am going to send to my local council about recycling. It’s not finished yet. I want to check more facts, provide more references, and check out the status of glass recycling’s usefulness.
But here it is as of now:
Dear Sir/Madam,
On returning home today I discovered that [...]