Tag: Humanity

• Which Three Wise Men?

  This is a follow-up to yesterday’s blog on Assisted Dying in Scotland ….. Three Wise Men came to Holyrood to support assisted dying in Scotland : Ethical experts from leading Scottish universities have backed assisted dying proposals for those with a terminal illness. The Philosophers’ Consortium on Assisted Dying in Scotland, is comprised of ethical…

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  23rd May 2023

  Religion, Philosophy, Current Affairs, Scottish, Politics

  Philosophy, Humanity, Religion, Scotland, Assisted dying, Holyrood, Three Wise Men, Social Attitudes, Dignity

• “For All Beings”

  Here, from Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, teacher and author, is a beautiful, meaningful, moving, timelessly relevant, “if only” vision of humanity at its very best.  It’s also ‘religion’ at its very best. It comes from the ‘beating heart’ of Buddhism, but surely also from that of Christianity, and all other religions worthy of the name. It…

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  7th Mar 2023

  Buddhism, Christianity, Current Affairs, Literature, Philosophy, Religion

  Aspiration, Being, Buddhism, Christianity, Humanity, Inspiration, Life, Religion, vision, World

• Voices in the Wilderness of Time and Space?

  “Welcome to planet Earth – a place of blue nitrogen skies, oceans of liquid water, cool forests and soft meadows, a world positively rippling with life. In the cosmic perspective it is poignantly beautiful and rare; but it is also, for the moment, unique. In all our journeying through space and time, it is, so…

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  28th Jan 2023

  Consciousness, Current Affairs, Environment, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Carl Sagan, Civilisation, Cosmos, Deuteronomy, Earth, Humanity, Joseph Campbell, Masks of God, Myths, Religions

• The Non-Tribal Religion of the Future?

  I stopped being a Christian minister forty years ago, and don’t now attend any church, but I’d gladly have listened to the late Bishop John Shelby Spong. And if I were to have my time over again, this is along the lines of what I’d want to say, not that it might be welcomed. Bishop…

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  7th Nov 2022

  Buddhism, Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, New Testament, Old Testament, Philosophy, Religion

  Bishop Spong, Buddhism, Christianity, Einstein, Faith, God, Hope, Humanity, Religion, Tribalism

• The Search for Meaning (i)

  Does human life have a meaning? Paradoxically, perhaps, Richard Dawkins seems to suggest the only possible meaning of life is, it’s meaningless! Here’s a typical quote – “Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor…

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  14th Jun 2022

  Consciousness, Current Affairs, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Dawkins, Design, Disasters, Humanity, Life, Meaning, Purpose, Security, Suffering, Universe

• Genesis 1: A Critique (i)

  GENESIS 1, a mythical account of the ‘creation’ of the world, is an impressive piece of work. We have a self-confident and authoritative God, unseen but heard, whose mere word, like a verbal snap of the fingers, creates order, structure and life, from what was originally chaotic, barren and inert. The six daily stages of…

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  9th Jan 2021

  Hebrew Bible, Literature, Old Testament, Religion

  Creation, Dinosaurs, Earth, Evolution, Genesis, Humanity