The Moral Failure of the New Atheists
The “New Atheists” are often compared to the fundamentalists** they rail against, by both religious and secular critics. These criticisms are often rebuked by some sort of argument based on empiricism or rationality, quite removing the real indictment that is being made and the moral failure the New Atheists* are in the midst of. The [...]
Modernity as Toolbox
The Guardian.uk’s Theo Hobson has an interesting piece on the Greenbelt religious festival in England, where modernity is more toolbox than threat.
I think that Greenbelt is part of a major religious trend that has not been very widely noted. A new style of liberal Christianity is slowly emerging. Because it is not a coherent movement [...]
U.S. Religion: Post-secular, More Secular, Post-christian?
In an Emergent Outliers discussion a few weeks ago the question came up as to whether the US is becoming more secular, is post-secular, post-Christian, or just post-denominational. Tough set of words to sort out. So much of what one will define the religious situation depends on one’s religious lifeworld. It is one’s own religious place [...]
