“Down with the Christian church! A plague on its legalism and its bullying throughout history. And ‘hurrah’ for Voltaire, that Enlightenment literary wit who tweaked the tail of the Roman Catholic Church, and […]
Bertrand Russell (known as “Bertie” to his friends) was arguably the leading academic atheist in the early twentieth century. He wrote a book called, Why I am Not a Christian. Sadly, Russell fell into […]
I would never have made a good Stoic… although I applaud much of their thinking. Stoicism was a Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno in the 3rdcentury BC. It taught that the […]
Media opinion leaders would have us believe that atheism is for the elite, i.e. for those who are truly rational (intellectually superior). But if you must have a god, you must make sure […]
Standing in the ancient church – alone and still… with only the dust motes as company, I hear a whisper – a sound beyond words. It speaks over my noisy protests and anger… […]
Modern atheistic philosophers such as Nietzsche and Sartre have trashed the idea of ‘truth’ existing. This has led to today’s society being flavoured by postmodern thinking that has debased the idea of truth […]