Spoiler: I might swear. I have a fairly liberal attitude to commenting here, and I don't particularly police it that much. Dissenting views are utterly vital to being sure that you are warranted in your own beliefs and views. Well, I got involved in a comment thread on the Possible Worlds blog
It’s been known since the 19th century that there are striking parallels between the Ark story contained in the Bible and a narrative episode included in the Mesopotamian story of the Epic of King Gilgamesh. In Gilgamesh, a hero Utnapishti is tasked with saving both human and animal life from a dest
The BBC report this fascinating discovery which seems to confirm the start of inflation (I would take issue with the slight implication that the BB is definitely the start of everything coming into being) or the Big Bang: Scientists say they have extraordinary new evidence to support a Big Bang T
Genius http://youtu.be/ld_tg4W7Hf8
Jayman, occasional Christian commenter here has replied to my post, The Problem with Yahweh #2. That itself was a second part to the series started here. As a result of Jayman's
The Guardian reports, following up from a story which I reposted here: Experienced headteachers say they recognise ploy outlined in document about alleged Islamic plot to 'take over' schools
My last post in this series looked at the idea that Yahweh, as the parochial Jewish God of a particular section of the Middle East in time, bears no resemblance to the God that Christians believe in, and is supposedly that exact same God. The Janus-styled god who appears to flip personality, charact
I am reposting this one again because it came up in a comment by Shatterface here. This was a segment I did for the Skepticule podcast which I also recorded as a video.
As a teacher, I cannot tell you how much this worries me. I will be striking later this month in opposition to this government push on 'free schools' an academies which is thinly veiled attempt to privatise education and politically liberalise it. I could bore you for hours on the ramifications and
This has come up recently in conversation so I thought I would post this video I did some time back. [youtube]http://youtu.be/6eY6iz38v9k[/youtube]
So now it is time to return to the idea of homosexuality and Christianity about which I posted the other day. Having looked at biblical issues concerning the position of deeming h/s morally wrong, let us now look at what makes people h/s and whether it is fair for an all-loving god to judge them.
I am writing a post in reaction to something about which I was talking with my Christian friend (let’s call him Colin). We were talking about homosexuality and his approach to it given his Christian background. Some points were interesting and some I fundamentally disagreed with. Here are his views: