Do Twitter and Facebook pose a moral risk?

Dawkins and Hitchens are wrong: Religious people are actually much nicer than atheists, according to new study – Telegraph Blogs

There’s an interesting article in USA Today by David Campbell and Robert Putman, two political scientists who’ve just completed a magisterial, five-year study of the way in which religion affects American society. They try and present their findings in an even-handed, politically neutral way, but there’s no escaping the fact that religion and religious [...]

Is God a delusion?

The second in the series on apologetics at Above Bar Church, Southampton. This one is considering reasons why it is rational to believe that God exists.

2. Is God a Delusion?

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Are Right and Wrong Just Feelings?

Tom Price posted this thought-provoking piece on his blog.

If right and wrong are real things, then this could be a clue to help us answer the quesion of whether or not God exists. Since a real standard of right and wrong which hangs above culture and life, might raise the question: Where did [...]

Reflections on Movie Nazis

Mike Hertenstein, ‘Movie Nazis & After the Truth‘, Filmwell, 28 April 2009

Mike Hertenstein writes a very interesting piece about ‘Movie Nazis’ over at Filmwell. Primarily it’s a piece reflecting on After the Truth, a film written by Americans but finally made by German filmmakers in the late 1990s. But in a long introduction, [...]

State of Play

Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe) is covering the story of an apparently random shooting in Washington DC for his paper, the Washington Globe, when he sees an old friend of his on the news. Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) is a rising star in Congress. He’s handsome, bright and ambitious, and is chairing a committee investigating defence spending. What catches McCaffrey’s attention is that Collins’s attractive young research assistant, Sonia Baker, has died – and Collins is clearly very cut up about it. McAffrey is irritated when a very junior colleague, the Globe’s political blogger Della Frye (Rachel McAdams), comes to ask if Collins was having an affair with Sonia. McAffrey rebuffs her enquiries, but before long their demanding editor, Cameron Lynne (Helen Mirren) has them working together on the story. It’s a story of deceit, corruption and murder. Apparently unrelated events turn out to be connected, and nothing is quite as it first seems. [...]