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In spiked-essays | Essay | The curious rise of anti-religious hysteria, Frank Furedi makes the “final point” that “Morality marketed by people who do not necessarily ‘believe in such things’ is unlikely to set the world on fire.” It would be nice if this were true, but it is contradicted by many historical examples - [...]

Now here is a much more sensible response to Dawkins. I haven’t seen the shows (The Root of all Evil?), but I suspect from reading reviews that Dawkins went over the top by implying that the answer applied to religion is “yes”. (Personally I do believe that if “evil” has any meaning, then religion [...]

A fuzzy-thinking response to Dawkins’ absolute antitheism
(in ‘Spiked’). Author Neil Davenport says:
“religion expresses kernels of humanism that sometimes appear progressive compared to contemporary thinking. For example, the major religions recognise that as humans are capable of making moral choices, we are fundamentally different from animals. How many secularists share such views today?”
But I suspect [...]

Daniel Dennett provides an article
summarising ideas from his new book.

Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~

Scott Leslie comments on progress (or not) in the development of controlled vocabularies for paedagogical resources.

Stephen Downes comments
on an Educause Review article

I’ll have to check whether I can really install this in “under ten minutes”.

Light in the Darkness

Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~

Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~

Wil McCarthy’s HACKING MATTER

Philosophy Talk: The Blog: Self-Deception and the Problem with Religious Belief Formation
I have two comments on this posting.
First, unlike Mr Van Leeuwen, although I probably qualify as an unbeliever, I am not threatened by the admonition that the communicant “who eats the bread and drinks the cup with an unbelieving heart eats and drinks judgment [...]

Philosophy Talk: The Blog

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