Andrew Copson talks about:-
- Christian & Muslim Apologists cf Politicians
- Formulaic answers
- lack of extemporising
- Justifications for a belief already held (not testing of hypothesis)
- Polemics
- Faith
- Knowledge v Faith
- 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so' (Mark Twain)
- Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (1897), CHAPTER XII.
- There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." —Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
- bundling some evidence with Faith
- moderate believers
- cover for fundamentalists?
- moderates prop up Catholic institution that is rotten at the top
- working with religious people
- humanists work with religious by sharing belief that state schools should be open to everyone
- Faith Schools
- England has a State Church, in N Ireland and Wales Church is disestablished
- 100% state funded schools run by CofE is ridiculous
- 1944 Education legislation is outdated as is Collective Worship
- Birmingham muslim schools
- World Humanist Congress
- Defence of the Enlightenment through Freedom of Speech & Expression
- What Humanists believe
- Tribal Faith is as dangerous as Religious Faith
- Ethnic & Irrational / Superstitious / Mysticism thinking is dangerous - abuse of power
- WHC promotes Universal Humanity
- Terry Eagleton
- Culture and the Death of God (Feb 2014)
- Humanistic Culture
- don't need to replace Religion
- library, hospitals, concert halls, museums, parks, portraiture, music, art, literature (Shakespeare over Bible)
