April 2011
2 posts
Shelley on Atheism.
Atheism’s aesthetic of enchantment
Posted in Interesting Theories
Posted by Abeo April 7, 2011 at 8:55 am
THE GUARDIAN: “Two centuries on, it is timely to recall Shelley’s argument for the non-existence of God.
As an Oxford undergraduate in the early 19th century, Percy Bysshe Shelley developed an argument for the non-existence of God. He entitled it The Necessity of Atheism, and 2011 is the...
Criminals are victims too.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4838039/Police-shooting-victim-laid-to-rest
A story ran by news site www.stuff.co.nz saying that this man was a victim, shot dead by police. I’m not really enjoying the tone that fairfax is taking on this one. The story as it stands concerns a young man who repeatly threatened police officers with a shot gun. The police then shot the man, who died. We...
