Honest question. Is this site a religious site?

[follderol]

It seems to me there's a large amount of Christian posts. I've also noticed a fair amount of disapproval for other religions.

I am an atheist. I don't really want to be part of a christian site posing as a parenting site.

So is this actually a Christian place?

Here are a couple of recent books with chapters by both atheist and believing philosophers, and theologians. They explore all of the famous arguments for and against God's existence, and other areas of discussion.

Philosophy of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Issues. Edited by Paul Copan and Chad Meister.

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion, Ed. William E. Mann.

Can we have an AWPA book group?

Looks like we've got one.

We'll need a certain sort of hard core publication, with suspicious stains on the most casuistical pages.

Haven't seen The Sacrifice Iorek, must get it out, it is the last one, the Swedish one, is that right? Have seen Stalker, Solaris, Nostalgia and Andrei Rublev. [we could start an AWPA film society?]

Quite a reading list! Thanks.
I gave DH The God Delusion for Christmas last year & he promptly lent it to a friend & I haven't seen it since, but it's on my to-do list.

I think it's one of those books, like Hawkings Short history and Godel Escher and Bach that sell far more copies than ever get read, but everyone thinks they know what's in it, presumably by some kind of process of osmosis...

ruty, it was threadworm who likes Tartovsky (I've never seen any I'm sorry to say, but it's going on my list)

lol at suspicious stains.

I'm going to order this one from AbeBooks.

The Sacrifice is about faith, I think. I never understand much (or perhaps anything)of Tarkovsky's films. But I liked The Sacrifice because its concern with faith was clear enough to make me accept that 'not understanding' was part of the film's intended content. I think it was partly about surrendering to faith in the face of the paralysis of intellect. And of course that has to be shown, not said. The intellectual analysis of that surrender is self-defeating, but the expression of it through imagery is perhaps not.

This works for me (mostly)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY-ZrwFwLQg

I'd love to talk about The Sacrifice if anyone has seen it.

I haven't but I'd love to see it.

it is quite pertinent isn't it threadworm? Am getting it out this week, always meant to see it.

sorry meant to address threadie not Iorek with 'The Sacrifice' comments...

I've just ordered it from Lovefilm too.

I'm such a duffer about music that it took the credit sequence of that film to draw me to the beautiful piece of Bach that accompanies it. I think the film represents faith as a frightening loss of self. That's the sacrifice. And that loss is in turn represented by sex -- a man's loss of self in a woman. Perhaps the film is a bit woman-fearing in retrospect. Hmm.

Too late, justa! I'll send it on to you when I've watched it.

Threadworm, yes I saw on imdb just now that Erbarme dich from St Matthew Passion is featured. This is one of my favourite pieces of music. I do like a director who is clever about putting the right music in the right place (Werner Herzog vv good at this).