Author Archives: David Glass
“You’re Only a Christian Because of Your Birthplace!”
A popular criticism of Christian belief, and religious belief in general, is that it is an accident of birth. Typically, the argument goes something like this: If you are a Christian, the chances are that your parents were Christians too. If you had been born to Muslim parents in Saudi Arabia, you would almost certainly have been a Muslim.
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Freedom of Religion or Freedom from Religion?
There’s a curious tension in attitudes towards religion in modern society. Freedom of religion is a well-established human right and few people in Western democracies, whether religious or not, would wish to deny it. At the same, the view that religion should play little or no role in public life is very common.
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