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Posted in Education, Faith, Language, Religion on May 30th, 2008
What’s the point of education?
When I used to be a teacher trying to inspire teenagers with the English literature, I frequently encountered the questions: “Why do we have to do this? What has poetry got to do with me? What’s the point if I know what I am going to do (plumbing/hairdressing)? [...]
Posted in Isolation, Religion, Society, Television on May 4th, 2008
Dr Who has been summonsed in an attempt to ward off the imminent threat of extermination.
The Telegraph carried a story today about a conference which was held last week in order to revitalize the Church of England. Doctor Who has caught the attention of Anglican leaders, who are encouraging clergy to study the science fiction [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Morality, Religion on Apr 28th, 2008
There was a report by Ruth Gledhill in the TimesOnline of a British citizen who was harassed when he converted to Christianity from Islam and who was then not taken seriously when he complained to the police. When locals threatened to burn his house down he was told by officers to “stop being a [...]
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 Faith, Human Rights, Philosophy, Religion, Society on Jan 2nd, 2008
There is an outcry going on in Oxford, UK, at the moment over Muslim plans to broadcast a loudspeaker call to prayer from a city centre mosque. A spokesman for the Central Mosque said that Muslim’s have the right to summon worshippers. They want to issue two minute calls, three times a day.
From [...]
Posted in Censorship, Religion, Television on Dec 4th, 2007
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 [...]
If you had a personal relationship with a divine being, wouldn’t you want to know what she or he wanted? I mean, how can you have a personal relationship if the other being doesn’t communicate - certainly theoretically possible (just about), but practically very difficult. I mean, I might need to know if God wants [...]
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