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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Books: Extract - Gary Cox's The God Confusion
What is God? Does he exist? Can we know? asks GARY COX in his new book The God Confusion. In this extract, he argues that the only valid philosophical response is to adopt the sceptical, agnostic viewpoint
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
In medieval times, Western philosophy was more or less indistinguishable from Christian theology. It had become little more than a tool for advancing theological positions to the greater glory of a God that no sane person dared to doubt the existence of.
Today, many philosophers find philosophy an equally effective tool for advancing atheism.
My book does not evangelise for God and religion or for atheism, secularism and science. It simply explores in an objective and unbiased way what philosophers have said over the centuries about the idea and nature of God, his relationship to the world and his existence or non-existence.
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