A Thinking Man

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 [...]

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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.

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I thought it was bad enough with Teddybeargate. Now this. The religious, humourless, irony police are at it again.
An angry Italian priest has persuaded soft drinks company Red Bull to withdraw an advertisement setting its product in a nativity scene on the grounds it is disrespectful to Christianity.
Father Marco Damanti, from Sicily, wrote [...]

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I really encourage you to watch this clip, especially if you are tempted to be uncritical in your reading of the bible, or want to use the bible to inform your views on homosexuality.

I am grateful to Roopster at de-converted for finding this material.

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Was it an ‘intentional act of broadcasting indecency’ or merely a ‘wardrobe malfunction’?
That is the question facing the�the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, three years after Janet Jackson fleetingly exposed her right nipple to 90 million Super Bowl viewers.� When Justin Timberlake pulled off part of Jackson’s bustier during the the half-time [...]

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I read in the UK Daily Mail yesterday (ok, it was a mistake - I wouldn’t normally read such a right-wing paper, but it was sitting there on the table looking lost and I was bored, so I picked it up) that the great British public are allegedly up in arms about two really significant [...]

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