religion

Hitchens and Dawkins are completely right. Except that they are completely wrong…

January 3, 2012
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Penning the recent review of the year argument I was prompted to reflect on the death of the late Christopher Hitchens. Polemicist, wit, writer, commentator and orator, he was a free and independent thinker when conforming to the (usually politically correct) script and staying “on message” is the norm. He also appears to have been [...]

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2012

January 21, 2011

The end of the world is nigh! Well some people who follow the Mayan calender seem to have got the idea that because it finishes in 2012 it must mean time ends at that point as well. They aren’t the only ones. Many Americans are convinced that the Rapture or End Time is only around [...]

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Rights roulette

January 20, 2011

Race – Sex – Religion. Three powerful forces in society. Which ones trumps the other? Race encompasses ethnicity so you can be racist to French people by calling them Frogs even if both of you are blonde blue eyed Aryans. You can also be labelled racist even if the “victim” doesn’t perceive it as such [...]

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The Lost Gospels

January 5, 2011

On 30th December last, in his excellent blog “Captain Ranty” set some of his reasons why he was unhappy with organised religion, and Christianity in particular. One of the reasons for his problem with organised Christianity was that he thought the Bible was incomplete. There were many books missing from the official version, he observed, [...]

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It’s Me Religion, Innit?

November 20, 2009

Young Mohsin Khan was driving along with this collection of 10″ blades held together with chain under his car seat. He was stopped by Police on his way to a West End nightclub. Several years earlier, 2005 to be precise, young Charlie Booker was found to be in possession of a butter knife with ‘no [...]

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The Power of Prayer meets the New World Order.

February 4, 2009

The son-of-the-Manse, Gordon Brown, has been pipped to the post in the ‘lets pray with Obama’ stakes. Our revered Leader is not to be honoured by being the first to shake the hallowed Presidential paw – despite the BBC showing misleading footage of him walking side by side with Obama on the BBC 6pm news, [...]

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Barack Obama’s First Formal TV Interview As US President Is With …….. An Arabic TV Network!

January 27, 2009

Having dispatched his new Middle East envoy George Mitchell on an eight day trip to meet Arab leaders, Obama spoke to Al-Arabiya TV based in Dubai. In his first formal TV interview as President of the United States of America, Obama says he wants to listen to the Arabs as he feels that the US has often [...]

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