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historyforatheists.com
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The period from the 1950s to the early 1970s was one of rapid change in the British churches, and in their attitudes to the society around them. The period saw a sweeping relaxation of the 'moral law' in the UK, an emptying of that law of its Christian content; from suicide to capital punishment, divorce...
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By and large the educated elites in the Western world today are without religious belief and often animated by a "culture of repudiation," keen to banish old ideas of the sacred from public life and to remake the institutions and structures of civil society so as to reflect their own liberated lifestyle. (essay by Sir Roger Scruton)
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David explores how Christianity forms the basis of Western thought, even among the non-religious. Read here.
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Fiction - paperback; Granta; 122 pages; 2014. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun and Arthur Oliver. Short. Sharp. Powerful. That's the best way to describe Leonardo Sciascia's The Day of the Owl. First published in 1961 and set in the early 1940s, this novella looks at the difficulty one policeman faces when he tries...
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