“ ‘I believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, subject to further explanation’ is not a creed that’s prevalent in the Christian world,” Archwizard Rowan Dumbledore Williams has pronounced. And that, you might say, sums up religion – the way it’s indulged in by most people, anyway. In other words, “I will not [...]
God is not a delusion. That is to be the gospel according to Dumbledore, a.k.a. Rowan Williams, the Archwizard of Cant, when he addresses the faithful at the Taliesin Arts Centre in Swansea today (or when he addressed – past tense – if you’re reading this after about 4-4.30 p.m.). “Dr Williams will confront the [...]
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LAST month, at the inaugural opening of the Northern Ireland Assembly, a deputation from the Humanist Association of Northern Ireland (Humani), headed by Brian McClinton, editor of Humani magazine, presented copies of Richard Dawkins‘ best-seller The God Delusion to a number of assembly representatives on the steps of Stormont. Dawkins holds the Charles Simonyi Chair [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
