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Posted in Faith, Government, Human Rights, Isolation, Law, Morality, Religion, Society on Nov 28th, 2009
Local vicars in Winscombe and Sandford in Somerset have been pressing to have prayers reinstated at the beginning of Parish Council meetings, a month after they were dropped.
The reason why they were dropped is not that the Parish Council wished to stop individuals talking to their imaginary friends in the privacy of their own homes, [...]
Who will win this year’s bad faith award?
The New Humanist’s annual vote to discover who people think deserves a bad faith award is still open. If you haven’t cast your vote yet, do pop along to the site and see if anyone merits your selection.
Last year Sarah Palin romped home to victory for her [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Religion, Society on Nov 13th, 2009
Press Release from the One Law for All Campaign
One Law for All campaign is organising a rally on Saturday 21 November 2009 at 1200pm in London’s Hyde Park. The rally aims to oppose religious laws in Britain and elsewhere, show solidarity with people living under and resisting Sharia, and to defend universal rights and secularism.
Simultaneous [...]
If it is not women’s legs and bottoms (see Appropriateness), it is their breasts. Apparently some men, especially some religious men, just can’t leave them alone. It is bad enough that some women in the Sudan are being whipped for wearing trousers, now some in Somalia are being whipped for wearing bras.
According to press reports:
A HARDLINE Islamist [...]
Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Religion, Society on Jul 23rd, 2009
The Church of England’s liturgical committee (what a way to kill the opening of a blog!) has recently devised a new service which will enable clergy to offer couples who wish to get married in church the chance to get their children baptised at the same time - all for the modest fee of £272.
This [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Isolation, Religion, Society, Travel on Jul 20th, 2009
No, it wasn’t a lightning bolt (though that would have been much more effective). It was a metal bolt that sheared off and caused a minor problem that needed to be repaired. And because it needed to be repaired, the ferry, the Isle of Arran, was drafted in to replace the Isle of [...]
Posted in Faith, Health, Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Society on Jul 15th, 2009
I know. It’s easy for me. I’m a man. I don’t have to wear the things. My gender is the one that has largely tried to dictate over the centuries how women should dress. I write what I am about to write with appropriate trepidation and guilt.
Posted in Existential, Human Rights, Humanity, Isolation, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Society, Therapy on Apr 24th, 2009
I’m not quite sure what ‘normal’ is, but I’m pretty sure that I’m not it. When the roulette wheel of life flung out its genes, mine fell somewhere near the far edge of the distribution curve, not in the middle. I am learning to live with that. At times it has been unpleasant: at other [...]
Posted in Creativity, Humanity, Relationships, Society, Television on Apr 1st, 2009
I’ve watched too many reality TV programmes. I can recognise the architecture behind many of them only too clearly. Most now follow a pattern. Their predictability is boring me and the genre appears to be exhausted. They are crafted so tightly that the notion of ‘reality’ is absurd.
The key to all good [...]
There are some things that you just know would never be allowed today if we had only known then, what we know now. If somebody today had invented alcohol or tobacco, you know they would never get passed for general public consumption, and would only be allowed to be developed for secret military purposes. Their [...]
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