Against Ideology - Science & Society

NOTE: Please do not confuse the definition of atheism with the philosophy of atheism. A lot of atheists do not like the idea of atheism only being a “lack of belief in gods,” but that is because they are placing the philosophy of atheism onto the definition...

Spring was launched in the Autumn. The work of Spring will explore the state of tech-enabled philanthropy in the UK, and provide practical insight into how digital technology can support giving and other forms of contribution into the future.
We know that Online Giving continues to grow very fast, in keeping with the overall migration of individual giving toward online and technology. But through the eyes of a charity finance director, the overall impact on online giving remains relatively...

I want to believe in God, but “religion” stops me. I hope God has less to do with religion, and religion with God, than we usually think.
Some claim that religion needs nothing supernatural, that religion, without God, can form and flourish. To others, the claim is blasphemous: God exists and religion is God’s revelation. All agree that religion affects humanity profoundly....

By ideology I mean a set of ideas, religious or secular, to which an individual subscribes blindly regardless of the objective and testable truth of  the ideology or of any contradictions which it may contain.
For the true disciple  of an ideology it must be accepted in its entirety or not at all. The reality of all  ideologies is that they are incomplete descriptions of  the world at best and plain wrong at worst. Religious ideologies are either  ragbags...