Defining morality as necessarily absolute and objective is an illegitimate way to privilege religious morality, even as it continues to become less and less useful to people living in a modern world. Not only less useful, but also potentially harmful.
Read MoreNo, Dawkins is not a fundamentalist, and he didn’t say that being taught about hell is worse than sexual abuse. But hey, if it’s cartoon villains you want, I guess he’ll do as fine a job as any.
Read MoreIs it plausible that a Jewish man would – in 2012 – call for Jewish folk to be labelled with a “mark of shame”? Well, plausible or not, it’s just happened.
Read MoreSome very interesting data have just been released from the 2011 UK Census. You can read the key stats here, but the piece of information that leapt out for me was...
Read MoreEven though unreason of various forms can be a dangerous thing, there are few of us who don’t occasionally take comfort in some sort of convenient fiction (or potential...
Read MoreWhile I was hoping to be able to post a review of Chris Stedman’s Faitheist today, my 1000-ish words of notes towards that have mysteriously – and most...
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