A Thinking Man

There is a sick theme running through all of this - or at least a clear attempt to involve some form of mental illness, and an attempt to bring in the people in white coats - well, at least psychologists if not psychiatrists.
Hey, I really, really don’t want to jump on the bandwagon and pour [...]

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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, [...]

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I’m not quite sure what ‘normal’ is, but I’m pretty sure that I’m not it. When the roulette wheel of life flung out its genes, mine fell somewhere near the far edge of the distribution curve, not in the middle.  I am learning to live with that.  At times it has been unpleasant: at other [...]

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I can understand a sentimental attachment to the notion of unity. What I find difficult is the concept that the appearance of unity must be preserved at all costs, even when it doesn’t exist.
The Anglican church is tearing itself apart over the issue of homosexuality, and at present, church politicians are burning candles at [...]

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Many religions have always expressed an interest in the way people dress and wear their hair, although traditionally most of the attention was focused on women. The concepts of ‘modesty’ and ‘hidden’ occur in the holy books written by men. One of the strangest things I have discovered in recent months is that at [...]

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The desire for extreme control is both sad and frightening. 
It is sad because it reeks so much of insecurity.  If I am insecure I have no confidence that any difference will not threaten or destroy me.  I have to control every aspect of my universe - know where everything is, know what everyone is doing.  There can be [...]

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Religious people say to atheists: “Why don’t you leave us alone? Why can’t we be left to believe what we believe? Why are organisations like the National Secular Society, and people like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris so angry with us and advocating that people should speak out against us?” The simple [...]

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I really encourage you to watch this clip, especially if you are tempted to be uncritical in your reading of the bible, or want to use the bible to inform your views on homosexuality.

I am grateful to Roopster at de-converted for finding this material.

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I know people who, in the sixties, grew up in London, or who were at University. I missed that allegedly marvellous time. I was too young. I was at school. The only signs of hedonism or rebellion at the Grammar School I attended were people who occasionally smuggled alcohol into cricket bags and got drunk [...]

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