Author Archives: Graham Veale
Fry, God and the Problem of Evil
Stephen Fry has justified his atheism with passion and eloquence to the Irish journalist Gay Byrne. “Suppose it’s all true, and you walk up to the pearly gates, and are confronted by God,” Bryne asked the British polymath and light entertainer.
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Sense and Nonsense About the “Islamic Threat to Society”
Whatever else we say about the murders of the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo we must insist that this was not a victimless crime; we must also insist that it was committed by criminals. A clash of metanarratives might have put guns in Chérif and Saïd Kouachi’s hands; but it takes a peculiar hatred to shoot an unarmed woman in the head.
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