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title: "Clash of faiths"
date: "2007-05-31T11:35:54+01:00"
modified: "2007-05-31T11:35:54+01:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/clash-of-faiths/"
post_id: 4152
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# Clash of faiths

Congratulations on achieving the centenary of the Rationalist Press Association.Looking around one at the clash of different faiths with bloody consequences – Protestant and Catholics in Northern Ireland – Christians and Muslims in Kosova – Jew and Arab in Palestine – and to innumerable tribal ‘cleansing’ in Africa. It seems to me that rationalism is more necessary than ever and I would wish the Rationalist Press Association a second hundred years and the widest possible effect on a world where, to quote the late novelist Nigel Dennis, ‘whenever I see the word compassion written on a wall I expect shortly afterwards to find my brains spattered across it’.