tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post1650032859440918666..comments2024-03-18T15:52:46.631+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Organised Secularists are as tedious as Evangelical ChristiansJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-74165899942118165232009-08-10T17:45:35.954+01:002009-08-10T17:45:35.954+01:00I agree with most of this Jonathan. As an atheist ...I agree with most of this Jonathan. As an atheist I have had my nastiest rows with secularists and pleasantist conversations with non-dogmatic religious folk. Think I'm an animalist rather than a humanist - what are humans anyway? I was once invited to do some similar slots on TV, on religious education in schools, they didn't know I was not a believe and when filming Lady something told me off when I said I was not pro Christian and anti- the other lot. 2 minutes rather than 5. These were very challenging to write, 200 words to say something meaningful. Taught me a lot. I found them recently and put them on http://learnlivethrive.blogspot.com/2009/06/night-talk-thames-television-1987.html. Comments welcome, but remember, I was young... StephenStephen Biggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16183851805005306573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-67861499745997244912009-08-08T16:45:24.979+01:002009-08-08T16:45:24.979+01:00I always welcome my morning sermon from Anne Atkin...I always welcome my morning sermon from Anne Atkins. Afterwards, I know that the worst possible aural experience of the day is over and that I can face management cant with new fortitude.<br /><br />However I genuinely enjoy Lionel Blue's contributions which are thought provoking and secular. Perhaps when Blue departs it would be a fitting time to end Thought for the DayCharliemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964488383299624526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-84034088531559195892009-08-08T13:32:06.000+01:002009-08-08T13:32:06.000+01:00I'm come to the conclusion that having a stron...I'm come to the conclusion that having a strong opinion of any kind about God is a sign that you have authoritarian leanings. (People who really think about thelogy, like Rowan Williams, are usually quivering with doubt.) Sceptics can be tedious as well, but that's a problem with their interpersonal skills rather than their logic.<br /><br />I've always quite liked Rabbi Blue on Thought for Today, if only for the genteel English way he tells whiskery jokes that normally require a Brooklyn accent. It's interesting that while boilerplate sermonettes on TFT and elsewhere are terrible, there are quite a few stand up comedians -- Stewart Lee and Eddie Izzard, for example -- who do pretty substantial work on religious topics.HE Elsomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03923699019741758255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-25844383284355023312009-08-08T13:30:31.623+01:002009-08-08T13:30:31.623+01:00It has, for me, come to the point where I dislike ...It has, for me, come to the point where I dislike describing myself as an 'atheist', even though that is the term that describes me best because I am so tired of people who evangelically promote the cause of atheism, painting out religion as nothing but a great evil that has only brought the world pain and misery and backwardness, a historical narrative that is, at best, revisionist, at worst, downright ignorant.Chris Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09108660502775726208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-23376862191618417672009-08-08T11:23:07.285+01:002009-08-08T11:23:07.285+01:00I find a lot to agree with here Jonathan. Being br...I find a lot to agree with here Jonathan. Being brought up C of E three times on Sunday at church by a religious father, I absorbed the book of common prayer and the bible. <br />As an atheist there are a few important questions like 1. where do you get your morality from if not a religion, 2. how different are your feelings if your serious about no life after death and 3.if you can't call on your god to condemn people you don't like,giving you the justification for killing them or worse, how do you relate to your fellow men as equals.<br />These are all questions I would like to hear aired on thought for the day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com