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Posted in Censorship, Creativity, Human Rights, Isolation, Literature, Religion on May 5th, 2009
Ok. I have a confession to make. And I feel the need to point out that I did the deed during a difficult time in my life. But I have to admit that I have bought and read all of Dan Brown’s books.
I turned to the The Da Vinci Code for some light relief and [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Religion on May 24th, 2008
Spain is courageously seeking to follow a difficult path of modernization.
The Spanish government has announced plans to secularize the constitution and remove privileges that have been granted uniquely to the Roman Catholic Church.
When the Spanish government was sworn in last April, the Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero decided to take his oath [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Morality, Religion on Feb 2nd, 2008
I am often fascinated by the motivation of others. It is stupid, I know. I can never know what their motivation is, and they may not always be too clear themselves. So trying to guess why he or she did something can be like searching for a needle in a haystack in [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Humor, Humour, Morality, Psychology, Relationships, Religion on Jan 27th, 2008
You may already have heard a version of this old joke.
The pope arrived at the pearly Gates and St. Peter greeted him and quickly told him that it was very difficult to get an audience with God. The pope said he did not mind because when he was alive he had the same problem. They [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Morality, Religion, Science on Jan 17th, 2008
Everybody should know that size doesn’t always appear constant when it moves. Even popes. Everybody knows that when you see someone in the distance, they look small, and that they grow bigger as they approach you, and that they grow smaller again as they go away. Even children know that.
Posted in Faith, Morality, Mortality, Religion on Dec 10th, 2007
You just couldn’t make it up!
You will remember that before the Reformation in the C16th, the Roman Catholic Church got itself into a bit of bother over the sale on indulgences - its version of a ‘get out of hell free’ card (that you had to buy).
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