• Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil – A bit on the light side, but Stephen Law is becoming a favourite, so I liked it anyway.
• Anthony Grayling on Atheism – Again a bit on the light side, but as a primer on Atheism… Why not?
• Peter Singer on Human Use of Animals – Starts off a bit square but gets better. For all you radicals out there.

A bit on the light side, but good never the less.As a bonus:

• What is Quality for our Time? – Patagonia Quality Director with an amazing qoute: “Quality is about process”. This is something that should ring true for all GTD/Agile/Scrum/Lean/Process-people out there.

This hardly sounds like the behaviour of a supremely compassionate and loving father-figure, does it? Surely there’s overwhelming evidence that the universe is not under the control of a limitlessly powerful and benevolent character?

In short, he uses a fictional dialog intending to show why the traditional religious responses to the problem of evil are at least inadequate, and the dialog does so by referring to an all evil god and showing that all arguments for the all good god can easily be turned around. Read the whole stuff, it good.Which reminds me; and I’ll leave you with a very beautiful lyric:

Credo in un Dio crudelche m’ha creato simile a sèe che nell’ira io nomo.Dalla viltà d’un germeo d’un atomo vile son nato.Son scellerato perchè son uomo;e sento il fango originario in me.Sì! Questa è la mia fè!Credo con fermo cuor,siccome crede la vedovella al tempio,che il mal ch’io pensoe che da me procede,per il mio destino adempio.Credo che il guistoè un istrion beffardo,e nel viso e nel cuor,che tutto è in lui bugiardo:lagrima, bacio, sguardo,sacrificio ed onor.E credo l’uom giocod’iniqua sortedal germe della cullaal verme dell’avel.Vien dopo tanta irrision la Morte.E poi? E poi?La Morte è il Nulla.È vecchia fola il Ciel!

I’ll leave the translation for you