The Universal Terrorist God

Robert Henderson God, who goes by a large number of aliases including Yaweh, Jehovah,  Allah, The Almighty and Him, has been on the run since the beginning  of   time as men have sought to bring him to book for his innumerable  terrorist   actions, including all “natural” disasters, wars, famines and diseases. All attempts to treat [...]

Islam is simply incompatible with liberal democracy

Baroness Warsi’s attempt to portray Britain as a nation of Islamophobes* raises an interesting question: is it unreasonable to be an Islamophobe or is it simple self-defence? To be afraid of a genuine danger is not bigotry.   The problem with Islam is that the Koran itself is incompatible with our society, a fact that is made double difficult [...]

Reason is not the primary driver of Man

Man, at least in his modern secular First World form, has the illusion of free will. That is unsurprising because he is a highly intelligent and self-conscious entity with a discrete personality and an ego and it is natural for such a being to think that the choices they make are free choices insofar as [...]

A prayer and a reading for the laissez faire religionists

The Lord Mammon’s Prayer Our Invisible Hand Which art in the Market, Hallowed be Thy name . Thy economic Kingdom come Thy will be done In Earth, As it is in the Chicago School textbooks. Give us this day our daily profit And forgive us our losses, But allow us to dun Those who debt [...]

Intelligent Design is creationism in pseudo-scientific disguise

In the beginning was the argument from design.  This claimed that God’s existence was made manifest  by the intense intricacy, utility and beauty of the world, a state of affairs its advocates said could never have happened by blind chance but only through an intelligent creator. Analogies with God and watchmaker were most popular. The [...]

What is the rational position on religion?

With believers and avowed atheists energetically  locking horns as a consequence of events such as the Pope’s visit and Stephen Hawking’s latest offerings on  God to no certain purpose what, if anything, is an  objectively  rational position to take with regard to religion?  It is reasonable to dismiss all religions as man-made artifacts because (1) they all rely [...]