An open letter to the Rapture hopefuls

Posted by Paul Raven @ 27-07-2006 in General •

I am a firm believer in the philosophy that another person’s belief system is no concern of mine - I’ll debate with them if I feel I have decent points to make, but if someone thinks differently to me, I figure that’s their inalienable right as a human being. I insist on the same freedom, so why should I deny it to others? The world is an open and free system - I advocate a sort of ‘Brownian motion of philosophy’. Do your thing, but don’t impose it on others unless they invite it. Continue reading “An open letter to the Rapture hopefuls”

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Declaring war on Easter

Posted by Paul Raven @ 25-03-2006 in General •

PZ Myers at Pharyngula, after a succesful campaign against a certain other horrendously over-commercialised and ultimately false and silly Christian festival, has decided to go for the throat of Easter. This guy is a strict rationalist, and brooks no religious mumbo-jumbo of any type. He rather enjoys baiting the Bible bashers. And why not? Continue reading “Declaring war on Easter”

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Vatican choke-slams creationists

Posted by Paul Raven @ 08-11-2005 in Uncategorized •

Evolution in the bible, says Vatican

THE Vatican has issued a stout defence of Charles Darwin, voicing strong criticism of Christian fundamentalists who reject his theory of evolution and interpret the biblical account of creation literally.

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