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Posted in Faith, Health, Human Rights, Religion on Dec 11th, 2009
I have long thought that it seems ridiculous that hospital chaplains should be funded by the NHS - not least because all other NHS care is allowed because of its evidence base and scientific sense, and because the religious bodies should pay the wages of their own staff. I recently wrote a piece expressing [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
I suppose it makes a change from a sex scandal, though you could argue that, in the scale of things, it could actually be worse.
According to The Times:
A 60-year-old vicar was charged yesterday with involvement in an alleged criminal conspiracy to organise “sham marriages” for illegal immigrants.
The Rev Alex Brown was one of four people [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Politics, Religion on Mar 27th, 2009
I think I am living in the UK in the twenty first century. I think I am. Sometimes things just seem so absurd that I question my reality. Some things you just couldn’t make up.
Just bear with me. Suppose there were laws about pigs - laws set up to protect the rights of pigs [...]
Posted in Faith, Government, Human Rights, Religion on Nov 19th, 2008
How would you feel if, before every day at work, you were expected to participate in a collective act of talking to an unknown, unseen, mythical being, and if this time-consuming act never ever resulted in any demonstrable, substantive change in anything? Personally, I might think it was a waste of time.
If, over time, this [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Politics, Religion, Society on Oct 27th, 2008
I have just set up a new Facebook Group to register support for the separation of Church and State in the UK. The group’s position is as follows:
People are free to believe whatever they want (however strange).
The state should no longer be involved in formally supporting any particular religion.
Religious people should not have access to [...]
Posted in Government, Morality, Religion, Science on Aug 1st, 2008
Amidst all the ho-ha about what consenting adults do with various small parts of their bodies in private (arguably following their god-given desires) and about whether the said adults can be part of a Christian leadership or whether they should be sacrificed for the sake of superficial unity, the Most Rev Henry Orombi, Archbishop of [...]
Posted in Religion on Jul 23rd, 2008
The absurdity of the state giving financial benefits to religious movements has been recently neatly illustrated in a posting by Libby Purves at Faith Central.
Pastor George Michael has declared his house a church which means that not only can his disabled wife and daughter worship without the hassle of travel, but also that he benefits [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Society on Jul 9th, 2008
I can understand where they are coming from, even though I profoundly disagree with them.
If you believe something strongly, you want to be consistent. The argument goes, if you decide to take your rules from the book, you then can’t pick and choose which rules you want to follow.
That seems to be the position taken [...]
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