Sea of Faith Christchurch Group

At our next meeting, on Friday 12 March, we discussion the future role and identity of the Sea of Faith.  We also look at suggestions for future meetings, and get to vote for the ones we want.

Richard Dawkins’ book “The God Delusion” hit the headlines a long time ago now and many more books aiming to show religion to be intellectually untenable have since arrived on the market. With tortoise-like slowness, I have been reflecting on the new atheism. I’d like to share my journey, indicating how various people have helped me on the way.

The God Delusion is of course a passionate attack on religion. Although I knew that the kind of religion he mainly had in mind was US Christian fundamentalism, I was wary, even rejecting, of the book. Continue Reading »

At our meeting on Friday 26 February, we will continue our look at the Sea of Faith BBC programme.  Technology permitting, there will be more on the theme of “Religion Shock” and perhaps time for Nietzsche, of God-is-dead fame.

Our first meeting for 2010 is on Friday 12 February. We look back again to the event that prompted the creation of the Sea of Faith network: Don Cupitt’s BBC TV Series “The Sea of Faith” from 1984. This time, we look at episode 5, Religion Shock.

For an outline of the whole series, check out this page.

On the morning of the first day, man decided to be free and good, beautiful and happy. No longer the image of a God, but a man. And because he had to believe something, he believed in freedom and happiness, in numbers and quantities, in the stock exchange and in progress, in planning and in his security.  Because he had filled the ground at his feet with rockets and nuclear warheads, for his security. Continue Reading »