Religious Moderates Need to Speak Up
Atheism is enjoying a certain vogue at least in part because it feels like
the last gasp of those rationalists who think that you can only be a
rationalist if you do not believe in God.
Atheism is enjoying a certain vogue at least in part because it feels like
the last gasp of those rationalists who think that you can only be a
rationalist if you do not believe in God.
My most formative religious experience was being with my grandmother the day before she died.
There are, of course, various examples of a 'just war', and the Jewish tradition has always believed that such a thing is possible and, indeed,actual.
On the whole, women have fared badly in religions down the ages, though
others may have a different view. But it may not always have been like
this.
I was not going to take part in this week's debate, as I live in the UK.
But since the question was posted, there has been a great political
brouhaha over the question of whether our government can and should except Catholic adoption agencies when it comes to the adoption of hard-to-place children by same-sex couples.
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