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Posted in Human Rights, Morality, Religion on May 1st, 2008
Why is sexism still tolerated within the Anglican church?
In a hard-hitting article in The Guardian, Theo Hobson takes the Church of England to task for its ‘wet clerics’ and their failure to carry through a reformation of the church in relation women. He laments the fact that division and injustice are being perpetuated because [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Philosophy, Religion, Society on Mar 7th, 2008
There are often calls for banning by ‘blind’ people who want to ban others but ensure that their own work is never banned. In their self-righteousness they fail to see the contradictions in their own position.
A recent example is Geert Wilders, the far-right founder of the Party for Freedom. Appealing to the higher [...]
There are many people who chose to base their lives around a particular religious text. This religious text may contain writing composed thousands of years ago (in the case of the bible, composed over thousands of years). They choose to use this text to determine what they eat and wear, who they marry [...]
Posted in Education, Government, Human Rights, Religion on Feb 18th, 2008
There has been mild to mad outrage in the UK press over the past couple of days about the primary school pupil from London whose parents wanted him to go to Stonehenge. Nothing outrageous about that, you might think. However, it was during term time, so there is at least a prima facie [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Humor, Humour, Morality, Psychology, Relationships, Religion on Jan 27th, 2008
You may already have heard a version of this old joke.
The pope arrived at the pearly Gates and St. Peter greeted him and quickly told him that it was very difficult to get an audience with God. The pope said he did not mind because when he was alive he had the same problem. They [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Science on Jan 17th, 2008
Everybody should know that size doesn’t always appear constant when it moves. Even popes. Everybody knows that when you see someone in the distance, they look small, and that they grow bigger as they approach you, and that they grow smaller again as they go away. Even children know that.
Posted in Faith, Health, Humor, Humour, Psychology, Religion on Jan 12th, 2008
If you want to slim for Him, there are now plenty of programs, books, and DVDs to help you. Christian diets are now part of a multi-million dollar industry. Many are claiming that faith is providing the ingredients missing from traditional diet programs that tend to be universally discredited as inevitably failing and even [...]
There is a bit of an argument going on at the moment over the decision of a publisher to refuse to print 10,000 copies of the ‘good book’ with the words “Jesus Loves Porn Stars” on the cover. The order had been placed by Californian pastors Mike Foster and Craig Gross, whose anti-porn ministry is called www.xxxchurch.com. [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Religion, Terrorism on Nov 7th, 2007
A belief is a powerful lever. Once you have it and pull it, the lever brings into being all kinds of consequences. If you believe that people go to hell unless they share your faith, you may be driven to go abroad in an attempt to convert the world. If you believe people who leave your [...]
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