Another interesting article passed along with Soror Hypatia would be a BBC piece speculating on the future of religion. Could a 3% increase in the ranks of atheists be indicative of a growing trend that will eventually lead to a… Continue Reading
The professor of my graduate seminar in the philosophy of religion offered an interesting syllogism once to demonstrate why an allegorical reading of the bible was the appropriate reading: 1) The bible is completely true and without contradiction, 2) the… Continue Reading
Salon carries a substantive critique of the so-called “New Atheism” (the polemical atheism associated with figures like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris) by Scholar Reza Aslan. Aslan suggests that these figures are best understood as anti-theists, not merely atheists, in their… Continue Reading