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Posted in Human Rights, Isolation, Law, Morality, Religion, Society on Jan 18th, 2008
Just in case you have ever wondered why women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive in that country, a group of Saudi men recently gave an answer. It formed part of a submission to the UN’s Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
Posted in Health, Human Rights, Humanity, Isolation, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Television on Jan 14th, 2008
Authority has more authority when it comes soaked in credibility.
If you were learning to drive, you wouldn’t want to be taught by someone with very limited experience of the road - someone who had only trundled up and down a straight piece of tarmac in a very limited and safe environment. You would hope [...]
Posted in Health, Human Rights, Humanity, Isolation, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jan 11th, 2008
An inquest heard this week that Asian student, Shafilea Ahmed, aged 17, from Warrington, Cheshire, UK, was probably murdered in 2003. Pathologist Dr. Alison Armour said: “The most likely cause of death is strangulation or smothering.” Prior to her disappearance she had returned from Pakistan where she had rejected an arranged marriage. [...]
Posted in Health, Humanity, Isolation, Psychology, Relationships, Therapy on Jan 4th, 2008
For a number of years the subject of forgiveness was neglected by the academic research community because it was felt that it was owned by the theological community. However, in recent years there has been a plethora of forgiveness studies by social scientists (see The Campaign for Forgiveness Research, for example) examining what perception [...]
Posted in Faith, Isolation, Psychology, Religion, Television on Dec 27th, 2007
On 13 December 2007 I posted a review of Ben Anthony’s Channel 4 documentary of the End of the World Cult, featuring Michael Travesser (Wayne Bent) and some of his followers in Strong City, New Mexico. After thousands of hits, and over 300 comments (including some from Michael himself and many from his followers) I [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Isolation, Law, Morality, Religion, Society on Dec 17th, 2007
You may remember the case of the Shia Muslim woman from the Qatif area who was raped at knife-point by seven men. Initially she was sentenced to 90 lashes for being found in the company of a man who was not her husband. When she appealed the case and went public with her ordeal, the [...]
Posted in Faith, Health, Human Rights, Isolation, Morality, Psychology, Religion, Television on Dec 16th, 2007
Since I wrote my original post reflecting on Ben Anthony’s UK Channel 4 documentary on The End of the World Cult and its leader, Michael Travesser, a lot has been happening. Michael himself has been responding to criticisms, as have several cult members, and at least one ex-member.
Why not revisit the original post, read the [...]
Posted in Faith, Health, Human Rights, Isolation, Morality, Psychology, Religion, Television on Dec 13th, 2007
I went to bed very disturbed last night.
No, it wasn’t the cheese sandwich - something far more agitating. I decided to stay up and watch Ben Anthony’s UK Channel 4 documentary on The End of the World Cult. It has been on my mind a lot ever since.
Posted in Censorship, Government, Isolation, Religion on Dec 8th, 2007
He’s a interesting question to make you realise that you really should spend more time reading the European section of the worthy papers: Which state is the only one not signed up to the European convention on Human Rights?
Dear reader, take your time. Pause for thought … No clues, I’m afraid, but you can phone [...]
Posted in Isolation, Morality, Psychology, Religion, Society on Dec 4th, 2007
‘Shunning’ is a good word. I like ’shunning’. It has something solid about it and sounds like what it does.
There was a lot of shunning this week in a very interesting article about morality in Time Magazine. Jeffrey Kluger argues that there are one or more of three main factors operating behind [...]
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