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Lloyd Geering – Distinguished Theologian and Sometime Heretic.
One of the unfortunate consequences of being a pioneer is that pointing to new paths does not endear you to those comfortable with the safer well-trodden tracks. Professor Lloyd Geering is now seen as more mainstream than he was to … Continue reading
Faith Auto Repair (An invited Post)
Faith Auto Repair by Secular Simian I just thought of a business idea that is sure to succeed. I will start an automotive shop called, “Faith Auto Repair.” I will market it in all the latest fundamentalist Christian and Muslim … Continue reading
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A Question to Ponder: Should Science Discovery Alter Faith?
If we presume faith, as part of discovering truth, is adjusting our perception of ourselves and our setting to how things actually are, then shouldn’t science be used to assist us in this quest? For example discoveries about behaviour and … Continue reading
QUESTION Are supernatural experiences (eg visions of The Virgin Mary, Jesus, Krishna etc) likely to be unintentional delusion or even fraud?
It occurs to me that since we now know that the brain can cause us to distort reality that it seems highly likely that many reported supernatural experiences will not correspond to events which are real in the normal sense … Continue reading
ATHEISM VERSUS CHRISTIANITY The Non-meeting of Minds
Upton Sinclair is credited with the following observation “It is difficult to get a man (sic) to understand something, when his salary [or reputation or even salvation?] depends upon his not understanding it!” At high school I was introduced to … Continue reading
The Commercial Miracle of Lourdes
On a recent holiday to the South of France, on our way back from the Atlantic Coast near Spain, we called in at Lourdes. Although I had heard stories about pilgrims coming to take the miraculous waters with their much … Continue reading
21 May : Another failed prediction?
This month’s scare story is that the rapture will occur on 21 May. Dont get too frightened because according to Harold Camping who worked it out, it is only the rapture which occurs on that date. The desolate left behinders … Continue reading
EVOLVING EXTREMES OF FAITH
Some time ago it was reported by Lois Lee and Stephen Bullivent’s article in New Scientist 6 March 2010 p26 that there was insufficient evidence to support the so called “enlightenment assumption” whereby advances in education reduce the willingness to … Continue reading
HERESY AT EASTER
Such a lot of heretics, so little firewood. When we look at an individual case of heresy in the Christian Church we might be astounded at the temerity of an individual daring to question what so many take to be … Continue reading
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