For Dawkins, atheism is a necessary consequence of evolution. He has argued that the religious impulse is simply an evolutionary mistake, a ‘misfiring...
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Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty ...
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We are absolutely right to condemn the suicide bomber's targeting of innocent civilians and mourn his victims. But as we have seen, in war the state a...
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We routinely and rightly condemn the terrorism that kills civilians in the name of God but we cannot claim the high moral ground if we dismiss the suf...
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The new atheists show a disturbing lack of understanding of or concern about the complexity and ambiguity of modern experience, and their polemic enti...
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In the tenth century BC, the priests of India devised the Brahmodya competition, which would become a model of authentic theological discourse. The ob...
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Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment.
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Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an e...
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If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this w...
