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a better future…
On a track from Heathen, David Bowie demands “a better future”, and after watching Jesus Camp yesterday, I’m inclined to agree with him. The movie isn’t great, as the basic message could have been conveyed in an 45-minute documentary rather than a feature-length film, but it still serves as a powerful reminder of the insidious [...]
Pascal’s Wager
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Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion – Jonathan Haidt Some responses to the above. One of the respondents above, Marc Hauser, on the neuroscience of morality. A further interview with Hauser here. Another of the respondents, Sam Harris, gave a typically provocative address at the recent Atheist Alliance conference in Washington D.C. And finally, [...]
How to live (I)
As an atheist of the militant persuasion, it’s somewhat odd that in the past two weeks I’ve spent significant time in deep conversation with a preacherman. Sometimes you need to call in the specialists, and the situation demanded a specialist of his description. The strangest part of the experience, however, was finding that the urge [...]