‘From Aristotle’s prime mover to the Catholic Church’s first cause, we’re always driven to the idea of something eternal. I think Steven Weinberg said it best when he said that science doesn’t make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible to not believe in God.’

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‘The predominance of scientists among those preaching the new gospel of atheism might lead to the assumption that science has somehow rendered religious belief unintelligible.’

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‘A hot topic for several thousand years, the question of whether free will exists may never be settled to everyone’s satisfaction. But in a series of new articles for the Chronicles of Higher Education, six academics from diverse fields offer fresh perspectives from the standpoints of modern neuroscience and philosophy. Ultimately, they voted 4-2 in favor of the position that free will is merely an illusion.’

Read more: Is Free Will an Illusion? Scientists, Philosophers Forced to Differ

‘We don’t need God to be rational and reasonable. Indeed, we couldn’t make sense of God, or anything else — we couldn’t make sense of “making sense” — if we were not sensitive to reasons and to the difference between good explanations and bad ones. Nor could a scientific theory — the theory of evolution, for example — give us evidence that we were not rational.’

Read more: Cosmos And Culture: Is There A Conflict Between Science And Religion?

‘To the emphasis on rationality, logic, critical thinking and even practical common sense must be added a few other important elements, such as divergent thinking, creativity, tolerating ambiguity, being open to the miraculous and accepting that magick and science are very different mental operations. Attempting to make magick conform to an exclusive scientific perspective is likely to ultimately deny that magick is even possible.’

Read more: Talking About Ritual Magick: Is Magick Scientific?

‘It sounds naff at first glance. But the British philosopher Alain de Botton has decided to go into the mimicry of religion, into its replication. Cunningly, he hopes to accommodate religious impulses while remaining an atheist.’

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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law - Aristotle

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‘Though founded by a pacifist, Christianity has justified some of the most brutal slaughters in human history, but we may be able to recapture its peaceful essence.

From time to time, I read about condemnations of religion coming from non-religious groups, especially concerning the all-too-common violence perpetrated in the name of religious gods. Indeed there is plenty to condemn.

Altogether too many religions sects of both major and minor religions, despite verbally professing a desire for peace and justice in the world, are actually pro-war, pro-homicide and pro-violence in practice (or they may be silent on the subject, which is, according to moral theology, the same as being pro-violence).’

Read more- The Tragic Story of Christianity: How a Pacifist Religion Was Hijacked by Rabid Warmongering Elites

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