The “vocabulary of reverence” debate reaches the New York Times.
Category: Theology
“The Cathars, like the heroes of ‘The Matrix,’ had an especially handy rationale for violence: if it ain’t real, it can’t really bleed.”
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Humanism in the news.
“A new embrace of Humanistic reason is needed to … prevent us from going down a path toward theocratic despotism.”
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Humanist revival.
This year is the seventieth anniversary of the publication of “A Humanist Manifesto.”
Easter, from the archives here at Philocrites.
David Little will speak about James Luther Adams at Harvard Divinity School.
“The multiverse theory may be dressed up in scientific language, but in essence it requires the same leap of faith.”
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The Bible’s plot.
“Sinners do not get what they deserve.”
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Liberalism divided.
“So great has been the tension between the general and the specialized forms of liberalism that some people have rightly asserted that the strategies of progressive liberalism are in fact the opposite of laissez-faire liberalism.”
The last time that liberalism confronted a radicalized philosophical challenge, that threat emerged from within Western civilization. Unitarians responded with not one but two major theological renewal movements.