VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Broga|DATE|1357589704|CONTENT|Stonyground: My regret about TfTD is the daily waste of an opportunity. Does that few minutes really have to be so consistently barren of any thoughts or ideas that might stimulate thought, offer real examples of people who have dealt with life in a way that might encourage us all to face up to our problems or let us take away some nugget to ponder.  It is just so boring, so smug and so surrounded by such a carapace of religiosity.  

I remain convinced that its core problem is the iniquitous terror of allowing entry to the non religious.  Why not?  Instead of being numbed and irritated by selective bits from Isaiah we might actually be stimulated by hearing from, for example, Cicero who wrote perhaps the greatest paragraph ever on what is a universal and absolute standard of right and wrong (I declare my bias); Epictetus; Seneca - e.g. Letters from a Stoic; and Michel de Montaigne of whom I have long been an admirer.  This last wrote what is for me a great sentence, &quot;......it is to put a very high value on your surmises to roast a man alive for them.&quot;

These people are not &quot;militant atheists&quot; and they will not bring down the fragile religious edifice so farcically protected by the BBC.  They just make you think.   Sorry.   Sermon over.   I have let my enthusiasm run away with me. |EMAIL|denis.watkins1@virgin.net|IP-ADDRESS|82.27.9.246|MODERATIONFLAG|