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Posted in Government, Human Rights, Morality, Politics, Religion on Sep 25th, 2008
There is a report by Patrick Wintour in today’s Guardian that there are signs that the British Government may, at long last, be ready to tackle the endemic sexism and religious discrimination in the British Constitution. The bar may finally be lifted. Downing Street has drawn up plans to end the 300-year-old exclusion of Roman [...]
Posted in Morality, Other Blogs, Religion on Apr 26th, 2008
I was amused this morning by an article from Tulsa World (no expense is spared in order to bring you the best stories) about a moral dilemma hitting not just Catholic priests, but clergy and preachers from all denominations. Unusually the potential scandal has nothing to do with money, strip clubs, prostitutes, choir boys, [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Law, Religion on Feb 12th, 2008
Whatever you call it - heart, soul, mind - it is sacred to you, influenced by outsiders, yes, but controlled only by you. They can only reach it if you allow them to. It is yours and yours alone. You alone have the final say. Yours is what makes you, you: [...]
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 Government, Human Rights, Humor, Humour, Law, Religion, Society on Oct 28th, 2007
There was a strange posting in the Celtic Football Team blog last Friday. Don’t worry, I haven’t lost my senses (at least, not that I am aware of). I have a stringer who reads these things for me so that I don’t have to. No expense is spared in bringing you the most scintillating stories.
Imagine [...]
Please bear with me. I know this story originally broke in July, but, 1) I wasn’t blogging then, and 2) it did happen in Australia, so it has taken a long time to reach me. And it is too amazing not to mention here. It is, really ….
One of the most interesting challenges (code for ‘difficulties’) of aspiring to be a regular blogger is that of trying to decide each day what to write about. Then sometimesstories just come along screaming, “ME! ME! Write about ME!”. Last night I was hit by one of those. It is so absurd that if I [...]
If you have 15 minutes to spare, watch the very funny and thought provoking video of comedian and playwright Julia Sweeney perform the first 15 minutes of her 2006 solo show Letting Go of God. It begins on the morning of her seventh birthday, when Julia learns from her Catholic parents that
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Aug 5th, 2007
In the early part of the sixteenth century, a man called Felix Manz was executed in Switzerland. He was a sincere Christian, and his only crime was that he held different views about baptism from those held by the sincere Christians in the local ruling authority. They chose drowning as a method of execution.
Aha, you [...]
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