Troublesome priests

Finally, the Church of England has found something worthwhile to complain about. Instead of getting in a tangle over women bishops and gay clergy. Rowan Williams (Canterbury) and John Sentamu (York) have found a subject worth bringing into the public debate. Both have harshly criticised the banking and finance system for finding multiple buillions of dollars to support its own corrupt and failing

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Losing my religion (1)

I'm probably a little slow to the races on this subject. It has taken a lot of study and heart searching over the last couple of years to arrive at my current state, which is somewhere between "recovering fundamentalist" and "reverential agnostic." I've spent a lot of time studying Dawkins too, a fine and elegant writer, with an appealing streak of humility, at times. Some of the other New Atheists, however, seem to be little more than fundamentalists themselves, absolutely intolerant of views that differ from their own on subjects about which there can be no certainty.

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