Category Archives: Faith Issues

Materialialism V Intelligence: Darwinism V God

By Malgwyn | November 16, 2009

“Any creative intelligence, of sufficient complexity to design anything, comes into existence as the end product of an extended process of gradual evolution” something Richard Dawkins emphasises in The God Delusion (p. 31). So, should there be a God, he would have had to have been the end product of the chain of evolution. He [...]

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Was Jesus A Real Person?

By Malgwyn | November 12, 2009

It was not what I expected to see on the Daily Mail Website - and especially on ‘Best of The Web’ section. While not a subject he engages in it is a doubt that Dawkins implies in TGD, ‘which he would, wouldn’t he!’ But in this era of faith and science conflict it is a [...]

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Christians Are Not Like Dawkins Would Have Us Believe

By Malgwyn | October 30, 2009

I’m not a Baptist but I married a Baptist - her parents were Wesleyan Methodist - for their family the Baptist chapel was nearer. I have attended a few Baptist services in my time - and some preachers go on for an hour but the congregations don’t seem to mind, and at times I haven’t [...]

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“Signature in the Cell” & Darwin’s Bicentenary

By Malgwyn | October 15, 2009

Back to Richard Dawkins - he has a definite dislike of anything different from his view of origins.
It’s a few years since I read Darwin’s Black Box  - a fascinating read. I didn’t think anything could be more convincing on Intelligent Design - but seems Stephen Meyer  has stepped up the pressure in the Darwinian/Intelligent Design [...]

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St Teresa’s Relics & Luther & The Reformation

By Malgwyn | October 11, 2009

St Teresa’s UK itinerary ends at Westminster tomorrow. I was saying in the last post that it is nearly 500 years since relics and the selling of indulgences split Europe in two, Catholic and Protestant. The 16th Century Reformation resulted from one man’s spiritual struggle, Martin Luther, over how we are put right with God.

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Saint Teresa’s Relics and the Protestant Reformation

By Malgwyn | October 3, 2009

Thinking of the press attacks  over the UK tour of St Teresa’s relics it is now nearly 500 years since ‘relics’ and indulgences split Europe in two, Catholic and Protestant. John Teztel  was commissioned by the pope to solicit funds for the building of the present day St Peters in Rome. Unwittingly, Tetzel’s enthusiasm in [...]

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St Teresa’s Bones and Religious Liberty

By Malgwyn | September 30, 2009

Thinking about Matthew Parris and St Teresa’s bones.
Simon Jenkins  also joined in with a critical comment although more tolerant in his remarks than Matthew Parris. Says Simon Jenkins in The Guardian, “Relics are jujus, religious placebos for the credulous classes, which presumably includes the inmates of Wormwood Scrubs. Most of us find them ghoulish. But other [...]

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Matthew Parris OTT Over St Teresa’s Bones

By Malgwyn | September 23, 2009

Why was Matthew Parris so OTT over St Teresa’s bones? Why the call to atheists (or militant atheists) for all out war on religion? Having read Matthew Parris quite a bit over the years I know he is as well read in the Bible and Christian teaching as most, even if one does not agree [...]

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Saint Teresa’s Bones & An Angry Matthew Parris

By Malgwyn | September 22, 2009

“For pity’s sake, closet atheists of Britain, come out! Don’t “respect” this credulous folly! Don’t let the madnesses of these faith minorities go by default! Stop our politicians kowtowing to nutters! Cease the embarrassed muttering about being “don’t knows” on religion, and shout it out. We do know! It isn’t true! All that is necessary [...]

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Religious Liberty in an Age of Toleration

By Malgwyn | September 15, 2009

“Religious liberty is at the heart of a free society. What can be the meaning or value of economic freedom or freedom of assembly or freedom of speech or freedom of the press if our consciences are not free to believe or disbelieve, to worship or mock, to convert to or from one belief system [...]

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