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The mystery of Blair the convert | Print |  Email
Sunday, 23 December 2007
As Tony Blair prepares to launch his Interfaith Foundation, his biographer John Rentoul cannot understand how subscribing to a sect with a claim to absolute truth can help to bring religions together. Read more
 
Not all Jam and Jerusalem | Print |  Email
Saturday, 22 December 2007
A leading figure in the Women's Institute has urged members to ban prayers from carol concerts. Jane Harris, a regional chairman of the organisation, said prayers were "not appropriate" because many WI members are non-Christians. "It is time we atheists stood up for ourselves," she said in The Daily Mail. "I've never believed in the Tooth Fairy or Father Christmas, and became an atheist at 11." Read more
 
What's the story with Atheism? | Print |  Email
Saturday, 22 December 2007
"Is Atheism the new 'opiate of the masses?", asks Cate Devine in The Herald, as a survey reveals that more than one-quarter of British adults cannot identify Bethlehem as Jesus's birthplace. Read more
 
Do our leaders believe in God? | Print |  Email
Saturday, 22 December 2007
"Mr Clegg could have said: 'Mind your own business, this is personal'; but he didn't. Some honest reflex told him that in a political leader religious faith is not simply personal. He's right, isn't he? If George W.Bush prays for guidance on invading Iraq, I want to know that," writes Matthew Parris in The Times. Read More
 
Boy without faith banned from Christmas party | Print |  Email
Saturday, 22 December 2007
A boy of nine was banned from his class Christmas party because he is not religious. Douglas Stewart, who attends Cluny Primary, in the village of Buckie, Banffshire, should have been enjoying ice cream and jelly with his friends and receiving a present. Instead, he stayed at home in tears. Read more
 
A broad church | Print |  Email
Saturday, 22 December 2007
"Religion has its benefits, even if you don't believe in God. Why shouldn't agnostics like Nick Clegg sample a taste of the infinite?", writes Mark Vernon in the Guardian. Read more
 
Hope lies in the nature of humanity | Print |  Email
Friday, 21 December 2007

In our age of vulgar atheistic polemics, Catholic-turned-Marxist Terry Eagleton brings a rare combination of intellectual depth and seriousness to his study of the gospels. But humanity will not find salvation in the ‘Good Book’ writes Michael Fitzpatrick in Sp!ked. Read more

 
Nick Clegg Should Be Commended For His Honesty | Print |  Email
Friday, 21 December 2007

Reacting to the news that the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, has said that he doesn’t believe in God, the National Secular Society said that he should be commended for his honesty. Read more

 

 
 
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