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Up earlyish, porridge for breakfast - J. set too with
painting / sealing the rooms (with watered down emulsion), while
I tried to hoover and clear the rooms in advance of her.
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Tried to clean up and entertain children while J. worked.
Lunch - set out to homebase to buy large quantities of paint;
rollers and so on. Returned, managed to persuade babes not to cry
constantly so we could both work for a while.
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Gave up eventually and turned to fixing the dish-washer
with the babes downstairs - it seems that a rubber gasket has
given out - bought and fitted a new-one; glad it was not some
more pernicious pump problem.
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Spent much of the afternoon putting second coats on, J.
out to Ruth's wedding party in the evening - up very late listening
to Gordon sermons, from a laptop in a plastic bag, while painting
the ceilings. Interested by Doesn't
Religion Just Cause Hatred and Violence - addressing the interesting,
albeit age-old debates between philiosophers and religious scholars.
Seemingly the only new thing about today's crop of militant atheists
is the tone and stridency; nothing new about Atheism itself. Sam Harris
surprisingly writes - "If anyone has written a book more critical of
religious faith than I have: I'm not aware of it", and you wonder -
to be sure, he writes an effective tract in support of Atheism; but -
what about
Friedrich Nietzsche ?
what about
Sigmund Freud ?
what about
Feuerbach ?
what about
Carl Marx ?
what about
Jean-Paul Sartre ?
and so on ?
How can one not be aware that others have written powerful books
opposed to theism ? The same blindness or deaf-ness, apparently is not
limited to other atheists' work, but seemingly also to those who responded
to the various arguments put forward. What is new is the stridency: that faith
is so awful, wrong-headed, evil, so dangerous that it should not be
any longer tolerated in any form. This is in itself an interesting nonsense;
what you believe is clearly far more important than that you believe something.
I'd recommend the brief taster / mp3 for those with a spare hour, though it
addresses only the Christian perspective on the debate.
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In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
