Tag: Religions

• 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

• A Down-to-Earth look at God (i)

  Following on from my previous post, I’m continuing to give thought to what can be said about God, reasonably, meaningfully, and believably. Most of us might agree with the proposition that ‘believing in’ God has more to do with faith than knowledge. There’s a difficulty, however, in that different people have different ideas about what…

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  21st May 2022

  Christianity, Consciousness, Literature, Mythology, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Science

  Faith, Falsehood, Fine Tuning, God, Knowledge, Life, Mathematics, Religions, Sacred Books, Truth

• There Are No Religions Of Peace

  Let’s talk sense, not nonsense. There are no religions of peace and no religions of war. There are simply religions. There are, however, people – some of whom are predominantly peaceable, while others are predominantly warlike. Religions have been with us since our earliest hunter-gatherer days, and will always be with us – despite the…

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  26th Aug 2021

  Literature, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion

  Democracy, Peace, Religions, Scriptures, Theocracy, Tolerance