I was reading another thread and came across this quote: A lack of evidence for God is not evidence against God and since there is no other...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/28/lib-dems-party-of-progress It'll be good to see more Guardian writers behind the Lib Dems. I...
The Pope is visiting England to discuss this new discrimination law, which is fine. The only issue is that it's going to cost the tax payer £20...
I know Jellyfish are horrible stingers but 2 wrongs don't make a right!!...
When I was about 10 years old, I went down the shop to buy some football "milk caps" (you know, POGs) On the way home I opened a packet, found...
I've not lived an active life. As young as 15/16 I was starting to feel heavy on my feet, rather than spring with us much energy as I wanted....
I always assumed that "legalize drugs" arguments came from people who wanted to do their hobby legally. It was people who were fighting the rights...
It's been a while since I left Nottingham and with it my old Wing Chun class. In my laziness, I didn't find a replacement, I got myself a sitting...
Note: I posted this topic about 5 months ago. You can find it in the philosophy forum here. Except you can't - the changes to the website don't...
In this thread I had to cut down a post into two halves. (See post 9) If I tried to post the whole lot in one go, I get a blank screen. It's...
Introduction As some of you will know, although I am an atheist I don't think that theism is necessarily irrational. I also think that religion...
There's two opposing positions in philosophy. On the one hand, our rational investigation of matters give us clear structure on how things should...
There's a popular view that morality cramps down on freedom, that these rules are societies way of controlling you to their benefit. Then people...
In another thread there was a mentioned of doing something because it itself is good. Questions came up as to what that is, how we would recognise...
I don't have a thing against Islam in general - I'm certain that the majority of Muslims live a peaceful religion. Nevertheless, there are also a...
There's a website I came across, Sex in Christ dot com, and it turns out that Christians aren't as restricted as is usually thought. Although the...
There is a petition that philosophy/critical thinking is brought into the syllabus of mainstream schooling. I think the main problems of the...
There seem to be two main types of controversies in this forum. The first one is some of the crazier religious folks telling the non-religious...
Humanism. Whatever religion I've flirted with, be it the Catholicism/Christianity of my upbringing or the Buddhism I started looking at as an...
Meet John Safran. He's an atheist in his own personal beliefs but very liberal when it comes to what other people believe. It's your choice. If...
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