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Saturday, January 31, 2015
Religion, Faith and Belief – well covered in the Media, but with different slants
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By Gary Berg-Cross Lots of media (newspapers, magazines, radio and online types like blog sites etc.) have a Religion section or its eq...
Monday, January 19, 2015
Blasphemy and Issues around Free Speech
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by Gary Berg-Cross The recent Charlie Hebdo shootings have stirred a range of discussion, some reasoned and some emotion driven abo...
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Humanism and church-state separation
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by Edd Doerr Humanist Manifesto II (1973, excerpts): “The separation of church and state and the separation of ideology and state are ...
Stop diverting public funds to faith-based private schools
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by Edd Doer Wall St Journal on Jan 8 ran a piece titled “Letting Education and Religion Overlap”, by Robert Maranto and Dirk van Ra...
Playing on Dialogues
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by Gary Berg-Cross Atheists, skeptics and non-believers along with their issues are not often shown in a very positive light when p...
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Unlike watches, easy to break beliefs have more value
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By Mathew Goldstein A robust watch that "takes a licking and keeps on ticking" is better than a fragile watch. A belief is unli...
The Great Silence paradox
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By Mathew Goldstein SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, has detected nothing. This result gives us "the Great Sile...
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