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The price of a humane society
One bright light has shone out of the hideously incomprehensible crime of Josef Fritzl in Austria. His lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, is quoted as saying that he was “not defending a monster but a human… more »
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The price of a humane society
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neilgodfrey wrote 2 months ago: One bright light has shone out of the hideously incomprehensible crime of Josef Fritzl in Austria. … more »
No longer to call myself "an atheist"; with some Grayling snippets
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neilgodfrey wrote 3 months ago: I’ve decided to no longer call myself an atheist, but a naturalist. A. C. Grayling convinced m … more »
"Heaven above and Hell below" : a cosmos in the brain and genesis of religion?
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neilgodfrey wrote 5 months ago: Heaven above, Hell below, and the level of anxious humanity in between appear in one form or another … more »
Why religious arguments do not belong in public debate
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neilgodfrey wrote 7 months ago: Philosophers and political theorists holding a wide variety of philosophical views use the terms … more »
Is an embryo human life and therefore something precious to be protected?
neilgodfrey wrote 7 months ago: More notes from Peter Singer’s The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush (p … more »
The ethics of belief
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neilgodfrey wrote 7 months ago: Notes from Peter Singer’s The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush (pp. 11 … more »
"Recovery from Religion" - new website for ex-fundamentalists
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neilgodfrey wrote 7 months ago: Marlene Winell is involved in building a new website, Recovery from Religion. One of the most helpfu … more »
Secular alternative: interview exploring 3 atheist or agnostic views
neilgodfrey wrote 8 months ago: Secular Alternative? is the latest program on The Spirit of Things, Rachael Kohn’s program on … more »
myths of war, grapes of wrath
neilgodfrey wrote 8 months ago: Why is my grief mingled with anger and not pride? And why am I continually haunted every Anzac day b … more »
The ethics of Peter Singer and Jesus compared
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neilgodfrey wrote 8 months ago: Peter Singer is a moral philosopher currently based at Princeton Unive … more »
Dysfunctional fundamentalist families (11): Family Health Versus Dysfunction
neilgodfrey wrote 9 months ago: Final in this series on dysfunctional fundamentalist families: the rest are archived here. Some of t … more »
Dysfunctional fundamentalist families (10): physical and sexual abuse
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neilgodfrey wrote 9 months ago: Continuing notes from Leaving the Fold by Marlene Winell, with added comments and discussion. Other … more »
"Suffering is suffering" -- for both human and nonhuman animals
neilgodfrey wrote 9 months ago: PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) makes up for its sometimes offensive tactics by i … more »
Dysfunctional fundamentalist families (9): Fantasy and Denial
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neilgodfrey wrote 9 months ago: updated 10.20 am Continuing notes from one Marlene Winell’s Leaving the Fold. Previous posts … more »
Dysfunctional fundamentalist families (8): contradictions
neilgodfrey wrote 9 months ago: Continuing notes from one Marlene Winell’s Leaving the Fold. Although Family Background is the … more »
Dysfunctional fundamentalist families (7): avoidance of responsibility
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neilgodfrey wrote 9 months ago: I used to think that the best thing I could possibly do to get along with my spouse was to stay clos … more »
Dysfunctional fundamentalist families (6): ever-present higher purpose
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neilgodfrey wrote 9 months ago: (the full series is archived in the “RELIGION:Book reviews:Winell” category in the right column) … more »
Dysfunctional fundamentalist families (5): devaluation of feelings
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neilgodfrey wrote 9 months ago: Continuing notes from Leaving the Fold (Marlene Winell) begun in Dysfunctional fundamentalist famili … more »
Dysfunctional fundamentalist families (4): Stifling independent thought
neilgodfrey wrote 10 months ago: Any deviation from the one set of “true answers” in fundamentalist families is generally … more »
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