The fact that we slowly apprehend our world, rather than suddenly discover it, should not subtract from its wonder.
The adult world may seem a cold and empty place, with no fairies and no Father Christmas, no Toyland or Narnia, no Happy Hunting Ground where mourned pets go, and no angels - guardian or garden variet...
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of w...
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
A. N. Wilson in Jesus and Robin Lane Fox in The Unauthorized Version (among
I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.
Science is the poetry of reality.
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our cul...
یک نمونه آن پرسش فلسفی قدیمی است که میگوید: آیا تو هم مثل من قرمز میبینی؟ شاید آنچه برای تو قرمز مینماید برای من سبز باشید یا اصلاً رنگی باشد که در خیال من هم نمیگنجد! فیلسوفان این پرسش را در زمره...
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The car...
In the beginning was simplicity.
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such...
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. It is an immensely exciting experience to be born in the world, born...
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheis...
به قول لوئیس بونوئل، فیلمساز شهیر اسپانیایی، خدا و میهن تیم شکستناپذیری را تشکیل میدهند که همهی رکوردهای سرکوب و خونریزی را میشکند.
So deeply ingrained is the unconscious northern hemisphere chauvinism in those of us who live there, and even some who don't. 'Unconscious' is exactly right. That is where consciousness-raising comes...
Much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and...