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Shared Difference: 05/08/07 - 12/08/07
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Saturday, 11 August 2007. Why Religion Still Makes Me Cross, Part 8: The Foundations of Belief 2 – Trapped Between Two Horns. I certainly don’t want to take incredulity to reckless extremes, but if there aren’t any ‘external’ references before the second century (Suetonius and Tacitus made a couple of very vague, and critical references to the Christian movement in AD112 and AD117 respectively) then how can we be sure that the gospel writers didn’t just make it up? Although the religious individuals cann...
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Shared Difference: 29/07/07 - 05/08/07
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Thursday, 2 August 2007. Why Religion Still Makes Me Cross, Part 7: The Foundations of Belief 1 – A Basilica Built On Sand? When “the women” (and the gospels aren’t clear on which women) are meant to have been surprised and alarmed by Jesus’ empty tomb they may’ve seen one “young man” (Mark), an angel (Matthew), two men (Luke), or two angels (John). Bewildered? After two thousand years of vainly wresting with these irreconcilables, God alone knows what’s going on. Interpreting “Thou shalt not kill&...
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Shared Difference: 02/09/07 - 09/09/07
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Tuesday, 4 September 2007. Huxley’s Human Potentialities, Part 4: The Way to Realise Our Potential (3). Posted by James Buckley. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). From the essay 'Human Potentialities', by Aldous Huxley. Shared difference, self-belief, and a rational humanism READING LIST. Barker, Dan (1992), Losing My Faith in Faith. Camu, Albert, The Plague. Carrier, Richard (2005), Sense and Reason Without God. Darkins, Richard (2006), The God Delusion. Ellis, Albert (2005), The Myth of Self-Esteem.
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Shared Difference: 12/08/07 - 19/08/07
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Saturday, 18 August 2007. If homosexuality is natural, Christianity is wrong. Too often a terrible wrong has been perpetrated, when people have been forced, whether overtly or more incideously, to suppress their natural impulses for love and relationships. The title of my blog, A Penitent Atheist, indicates a degree of regret, even remorse, that exists in me because of the things I taught and preached as a Christian minister. One of the things I regret the most is my persecution of homosexuals. Anglican ...
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Shared Difference: 08/07/07 - 15/07/07
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007. Why Religion Still Makes Me Cross, Part 1: God’s Mysterious Means and Uncertain Ends. I look on with disbelief when people take Christianity seriously, or simply politely tolerate it alongside other ‘established fantasies’, first of all because it seems to me so silly. Christian beliefs are a ripe target for ridicule, and I find it difficult to resist. What was God thinking – sorry, THINKING? What kind of ill-considered Providence is that? True, God apparently had other things R...
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Shared Difference: 26/08/07 - 02/09/07
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Friday, 31 August 2007. Huxley’s Human Potentialities, Part 3: The Way to Realise Our Potential (2). Those of us who, following Huxley, wish establish an environment that favours the actualisation of in-born potentialities face an uphill struggle. This is because the societies we inhabit not oriented toward that end, and are instead preoccupied by the maintenance and extension of their wealth. So as things stand we can only do what we can with what there is. Posted by James Buckley. Yalom, Irvin D (1981)...
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Shared Difference: Huxley’s Human Potentialities, Part 4: The Way to Realise Our Potential (3).
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Tuesday, 4 September 2007. Huxley’s Human Potentialities, Part 4: The Way to Realise Our Potential (3). Posted by James Buckley. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). From the essay 'Human Potentialities', by Aldous Huxley. Shared difference, self-belief, and a rational humanism READING LIST. Barker, Dan (1992), Losing My Faith in Faith. Camu, Albert, The Plague. Carrier, Richard (2005), Sense and Reason Without God. Darkins, Richard (2006), The God Delusion. Ellis, Albert (2005), The Myth of Self-Esteem.
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Shared Difference: 15/07/07 - 22/07/07
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Friday, 20 July 2007. Why Religion Still Makes Me Cross, Part 5: Not just "is", but "ought" as well! Sorry but I tried worshiping God, confessing my sins, and essentially giving Him all the praise while giving my self all the condemnation. It didn’t work, and made me unhappy: thankfully I realised I had a problem before all that left me utterly demoralised, inward-looking, and ineffectual. Were I hungry I might desperately seek relief from material poverty, and yet scores of concerned Christians would co...
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Shared Difference: 22/07/07 - 29/07/07
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Monday, 23 July 2007. Why Religion Still Makes Me Cross, Part 6: The "God Shaped Hole"? Recently I spotted an Alpha poster showing a climber gazing at a breathtaking mountain vista; below a caption asked “Is there more to life than this? 8221; “What? Isn’t that enough? Or grasping for something “out of this world”, doesn’t stand out as a particularly effective way to go. Posted by James Buckley. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). From the essay 'Human Potentialities', by Aldous Huxley. Camu, Albert, The Plague.
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Shared Difference: Huxley’s Human Potentialities, Part 1: Hope and a Direction for the Future Without Faith.
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007. Huxley’s Human Potentialities, Part 1: Hope and a Direction for the Future Without Faith. Linking in to his brother’s piece, Julian describes ‘Evolutionary Humanism’ as an aim for human species ‘…in the shape of greater fulfilment through the realisation of potentialities.’ In my next post I will show how Aldous Huxley thought we might practically go about realising human potentialities. Posted by James Buckley. 24 August 2007 at 09:27. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Perso...