We live in a time where there is a lot of debate about religion – is it a force for good, or for bad? Is belief in a supreme being fundamentally less enlightened than acceptance of the scientific consensus? And so on. But a lot of the arguments on both sides are poorly thought through, and make fundamental errors of logic, or simply overstate their case to get attention. I think a large part of the reason for this is that “religion” covers such a complex web of ideas, that arguments that start at one point in that web get snarled up in other parts, where the original argument no longer makes sense.
Losing our way in the tapestry of religious debate
by Rowan on 19 April, 2014