Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
A new study that explores Europe’s Young Adults and Religion has been published by academics from St Mary’s University, Twickenham and the Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP) reveals levels of religious affiliation and practice amongst 16-29 year-olds in 22 European countries. You can download it in either English or French from here –Young Adults and Religion. It … Read more
When faced with the various claims asserted by those that believe you can’t help but conclude that it is not as such a test of faith but is instead a gullibility test. Below are three items that popped up[ in the news cycle during the past seven days. What perhaps is rather scary is that … Read more
Let’s take a break from my normal postings and spend 5 minutes today with Bill Maher. He has a few words concerning third rails … Thanks to Trump, piety itself has ceased to be a third rail in American politics. How could it anymore when the world’s least godly man has been so fully embraced … Read more
A popular religious claim is that if you invite Jesus into your heart, he will fill you with the Holy Spirit and so you become “Born Again”. All your sins are forgiven and you are supposedly a new creation. Here is what the bible claims … Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is … Read more
Venture into the religious domain and you will quickly find yourself wading into a pool of strange unusual claims and beliefs. This is perhaps how we are and it is part of the human experience for us to be like this. We may in some respects be rational and intelligent, but that is not the … Read more
When you do a weekly posting of news items related to religious weirdness, then there comes a point at which you might be tempted to consider the idea that you will no longer be surprised by the items that pop up, and instead you come to anticipate a specific mode of behaviour. I do confess … Read more
