Posts Tagged as ‘atheism’

17 April 2008

Good Friday and the three atheists

Nicked from the alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox newsgroup
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I thought the following story might be enjoyed by many on this list in light of recent conversations on this list about repeating things in church services. It was told to me by an OCA priest, who had heard it from a hierarch.
In Warsaw, in the 1950s, when Communism was strong, [...]

15 February 2008

Imagine no religion!

clipped from bbsnews.net

In early February, the freethinkers group Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) debuted
its 14 X 48-foot stained glass style billboard with the message “Imagine No Religion” in Columbus, Ohio.

“Imagine No Religion” billboard campaign sign by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Image Credit: FFRF 2008-02-02.

The national campaign is an effort to let Americans know that there [...]

26 December 2007

“War on Christmas” is an urban legend

According to Polly Toynbee, the “war on Christmas” is an urban legend, in the UK at least.But it seems to keep getting trotted out. Every year someone is telling us, somewhere on the Internet, that there is a “war on Christmas”. But if there is, it’s not in secular Europe. Perhaps it is so [...]

5 December 2007

The Golden Compass — to boycott or not to boycott?

It seems that nearly everyone in the blogosphere has had something to say about the newly released film The Golden Compass, based on Philip Pullman’s book Northern Lights, which is part one of the His dark materials trilogy. So perhaps I need to justify my attempt to say something that has probably already been said, [...]

27 October 2007

Survival of the survivors

“The speed at which mankind has used the Earth’s resources over the past 20 years has put “humanity’s very survival” at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded.”, according to an article cited by Fr David Macgregor.
Should we care? Should we be concerned about this?
More than a century ago a town meeting in Durban [...]