Atheist preaching

Midge

Posted: 17.01.2006, 20:41

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There seems to be a bit of a reaction against vociferous attacks on 'religious people' recently. One thing was Polly Toynbee's miserable review of 'Narnia' in the Guardian, which people thought was overly bitter. Now Madeleine Bunting in the Guardian is criticising Richard Dawkins's TV series 'The Root of All Evil?':

His voice is one of the loudest in an increasingly shrill chorus of atheist humanists; something has got them badly rattled. They even turned their bitter invective on Narnia. By all means, let's have a serious debate about religious belief, one of the most complex and fascinating phenomena on the planet, but the suspicion is that it's not what this chorus wants. Behind unsubstantiated assertions, sweeping generalisations and random anecdotal evidence, there's the unmistakable whiff of panic; they fear religion is on the march again.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1681235,00.html

Could this be a sign of a change in the times, like a few decades ago when liberals were irritatedly attacking evangelicals as a small group that would die out like the dinosaurs? Is it a sign that the weight of society is shifting from modernism to postmodernism? One thing is sure - the Guardian isn't as one-sided as I thought.

Anonymous

Posted: 19.02.2006, 04:03

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For the past couple of years I have had a feeling that every broad form of identification like; race, nationhood, and religion has been given an avenue to be on the rise. Through the climate of fear and retaliation we�ve found ourselves in. Post Millennial tension perhaps? Do we as a governing people, have to make something happen before we lose ourselves in speculation of what might? Maybe.

Is it then a case that the latest news headlines about current affairs have everybody questioning what they believe about the latest problems, why they believe it, and so what is their belief leading them to do, or join?

GE/__________ - discuss :)

Lk

Anonymous

Posted: 08.03.2006, 11:06

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What I feel about all this varies on a daily basis. Sometimes I'm happy that there's more vague openness to spiritual ideas; sometimes I think Europe is on the edge of hardening against religion, as a response to Muslim and Christian fundamentalism. Which was will it go?

Anonymous

Posted: 08.03.2006, 11:06

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Sorry, typo: which way will it go?