Category Archives: Agnosticism

“Faith Schools Menace” (Richard Dawkins) thoughts…

By Gareth Peoples | Published August 19, 2010

For those of you who haven’t yet seen the documentary, please do watch it before reading this blog post because it does contain a lot of spoilers. As far as I know the link only works in the UK & Republic of Ireland (unless you have a proxy). “Faith Schools Menace” was an interesting take [...]

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Why Genesis 1 – 3 cannot be read literally and make sense.

By Gareth Peoples | Published April 17, 2010

It is the first time that I have posted on this blog in a while. However, this is a subject which rightly or wrongly has become an area of key contention within Christianity. The idea of a young earth versus what I would feel is the more reasonable view, even from reading the Genesis 1 [...]

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Religion and the Noughties

By Gareth Peoples | Published December 30, 2009

To start off a new blog, and just about a new year and a new decade. A review of the role of religion in the last decade seems almost apt, and indeed it is something that has been done in The Guardian recently with various contributors giving their views on the subject this week. It [...]

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