tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post17896081540764060..comments2023-08-25T16:13:51.356+01:00Comments on Martin In The Margins: Faith under fire?Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15608932251584881007noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-83799103391335009542012-02-28T17:24:20.211+00:002012-02-28T17:24:20.211+00:00Thanks for the recommendation - I'll certainly...Thanks for the recommendation - I'll certainly follow it up.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15608932251584881007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-19952085267820566142012-02-28T17:15:33.299+00:002012-02-28T17:15:33.299+00:00Richard Holloway's memoir 'Leaving Alexand...Richard Holloway's memoir 'Leaving Alexandria' is a wonderfully sensitive and moving account of where so many people are, in an uncertain ground, open to the unknowability of god, well away from the fundamentalists of religion and those of atheism. I heartily recommend it.AAllanhttp://thepleasuresofmerelycirculating.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-90585437427217937522012-02-16T19:20:45.537+00:002012-02-16T19:20:45.537+00:00I might have known someone would take me up on tha...I might have known someone would take me up on that! As I was typing it, the words 'school prayer' kept popping into my mind, and the various court cases around that in some states....So maybe I over-drew the contrast, but I wanted to make the point that the US constitution provides for this kind of religion-neutral public space, whereas that principle has never been properly established in the still-half-heartedly-Anglican UK. The US example also makes the point that a secular constitution can co-exist with enthusiastic religiosity.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15608932251584881007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-83172823347820217152012-02-16T18:56:17.181+00:002012-02-16T18:56:17.181+00:00"a ruling that, paradoxically, would hardly p..."a ruling that, paradoxically, would hardly provoke a ripple in most parts of the ultra-religious US, where this kind of separation of church and state is written into the constitution as a guarantor of religious freedom"<br /><br />Well, that's a bit too generous to the US, I think. If there were such a tradition entrenched somewhere - like Congress for instance! - and then were ruled against by a judge, there would be ripples that might as well be called tsunamis. Just ask Jessica Ahlquist.Ophelia Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000353980872079468noreply@blogger.com