Tag: beliefs
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What purpose do religions serve in society? (A pragmatic view)
29 April 2014
I sometimes feel it's unfair to criticise early religions within the context of the highly developed, 21st century, welfare state that I live in. Given a rural village in the 1500s Britain, religions were probably quite an effective way of keeping people motivated and providing a basic community support network and structure. If you take the […]
If I were a religious man.
27 April 2014
Occasionally forms have a field labelled: "Religion" followed by a bunch of tick boxes. A tick in a box is rarely very descriptive and so I thought I'd try and explain where I stand on faith. Background I was raised as a non-religious person in a largely non-religious pseudo-christian culture. What do I mean by […]
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