12 October 2005

Is religion any good?

I mentioned, a post or two back, about the research by Gregory Paul and George Monbiot's response. Well, it got picked up on Open Source Theology too ...
what do we have to do to ensure that an emerging theology is socially, politically and intellectually benign? If we believe that faith and theology should have some sort of public commitment, how do we avoid simply reinforcing the correlation between belief and dysfunctionality that Gregory Paul has highlighted?
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