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Posted in Human Rights, Humanity, Law, Religion, Society on Nov 4th, 2010
Geoffrey Roberston’s book is both compelling and shocking. I finished reading it about a fortnight ago, but because the content was so disturbing and complex, it has taken me some time to let the material settle and for me to be able to begin to write about it.
Terry Eagleton’s review in The Guardian best [...]
Posted in Faith, Health, Human Rights, Humanity, Law, Morality on Jun 2nd, 2009
As any Roman Catholic priest or nun will tell you, extra-marital sex is clearly a sin and should be punished, severely. I am grateful to the National Secular Society for the following:
Catholic school that unfairly dismissed an unmarried mother loses appeal
A Catholic school that sacked an unmarried teaching assistant after she became pregnant has lost [...]
Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Religion on Apr 12th, 2009
I wasn’t there and I didn’t do it. I hadn’t even been born at the time!
For a long time I always used to associate Easter with guilt. Although family would try to stuff you with chocolate, and church would try to tell you it was joyful with antiquated, mournful melodies, it is the [...]
Posted in Creativity, Existential, Humanity, Religion, Society on Jan 15th, 2009
Instruction Manual for Life
TheraminTrees
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Posted in Faith, Humanity, Psychology, Religion, Society on Dec 11th, 2008
People sometimes ask me how I am coping with life now that I am no longer a Christian believer, and certainly no longer a card-carrying evangelical charismatic. Don’t I miss the sense of togetherness, or the joy and hope of the Christmas season?
The answer, of course, is that, in many ways, my life is much [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Isolation, Morality, Religion, Society on Nov 14th, 2008
Just two sour footnotes after the genuine joy and sense of hope that many of us liberals felt after America had the sense to vote in a Democrat for President (especially a black one).
The first sour note comes from a South Carolina Roman Catholic priest who has told his parishioners that they should refrain from [...]
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 [...]
I find myself continuing to laugh about and reflect on a comic strip cartoon that was first brought to my attention by Daniel Florien in which the creator, Neil Swaab, explains why god must prefer atheists to believers.
As the Pope visits America, I thought Matthew Harwood’s article was so good, and so important, I quote it in full.
A Prayer for the Prey
Over the centuries many dubious miracles have been claimed on behalf of the power of prayer. But Pope Benedict XVI, who arrived in the United States today for his inaugural visit, [...]
Posted in Government, Law, Politics, Religion on Feb 28th, 2008
I have written before about how churches sometimes want to use tax laws to their unreasonable advantage, and how in Italy at least, this is costing the state millions.
A recent case has occurred in America, where one rich Televangelist is being asked by the state to account for his expenditure. Instead of opening the [...]
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