November 2009
3 posts
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British Courts: Faith is Faith
British courts have just equated deeply held beliefs about the environment to deeply held religious beliefs. Is this progress towards enlarging region’s role in the public sphere? From The Economist:
“A BELIEF in man-made climate change and the alleged resulting moral imperatives is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief...
“The poor tell us who we are. The prophets tell us who we can be. So we hide the...”
– Philip Berrigan (via Sojourners)