Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Sunday, 24 December 2017

On Religion At Yule-Tide

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Some social scientific estimates suggest that up to 84% of the world’s population are members of religious groups or claim that religion i...
Saturday, 30 July 2016

On the Supernatural

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I want to dispute the value of the term 'supernatural' - the perceived non-natural that is not 'at hand', immediately and po...
Sunday, 13 March 2016

Modern Mythologies and the Social

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Joseph Campbell in his Occidental Mythology wrote that "In the long view of the history of mankind, four essential functions of myt...
Saturday, 16 January 2016

Omniscience and Big Data as New Religion

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One of the persistent delusions of humanity (taken as the default, though not the inevitable, position of most people who think that they ar...
Saturday, 2 January 2016

On 'Original Sin'

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There are four 'scientific' claims that original sin exists and they are worth noting [1]:- * The Selfish Gene hypothesis stat...
Tuesday, 1 September 2015

The Church and 'Auctoritas' - The Heart of the Problem

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In Trier (Germany) in 1231, the local Archbishop, a significant temporal power in his own right, convened a Synod to consider how to imple...
Saturday, 22 August 2015

So Who Is The Author of Position Reserved?

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[It occurred to the Author that regular readers had no frame of reference for the personality behind the postings. This is a slightly edited...