The future of religion in the age of global communication

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Jan 182013
 

I’ve just read a super article by Valerie Tarico about the challenges that the Internet (and especially the Web) poses for religion: Religion may not survive the Internet. It reminded me of an article (that Valerie Tarico won’t have seen or known about) that I wrote on my website some time ago: Religions in future. One of my themes was similar. Global communication undermines a number of the methods that religions rely on to sustain the ignorance and delusions of their existing and (more importantly) their future followers. Here are some quotes from my article (there is a lot more . . . . . . . . . . [Read complete post]

It is wrong to compare Muslims with Jews

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Jul 242012
 

Here is a nasty article by Owen Jones in the Independent: Owen Jones: Islamophobia – for Muslims, read Jews. And be shocked “Islamophobia – for Muslims, read Jews…. Imagine our alarm if nearly half the UK population said they believed that ‘there are too many Jews’”. What is nasty about this argument is that it (probably deliberately) conflates “race” and “religion”. And then it uses the race-related experiences of Jews to try to defend the indefensible use of the charge of Islamophobia. Let’s remind ourselves of some reasons why racism is wrong: A person’s race, if determined by ancestry and/or . . . . . . . . . . [Read complete post]