I am currently reading John O’Farrell’s surprisingly thick history of Britain, and was very taken by this footnote: The Bible forbade Christians to lend money and so it became the trade of the Jewish diaspora. Modern right-wing Christians citing the Bible’s opposition to homosexuality do not seem to have the same enthusiasm for outlawing the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Religion'
Fingers on buzzers, no conferring
May 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Fingers on buzzers, no conferring · Life
I was at another quiz on Friday night. This one was in aid of the Crawley Community Church building fund. One of my colleagues at work is involved in the church and invited me to join his team. I may be an atheist but I’m also a quiz whore 🙂
Tags: Horsham·Labour Party·Religion
Soteriology
May 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
I like learning new words. Today I learned about a word called ‘soteriology’ which is, apparently, a branch of theology that deals with salvation. Its going to be tough trying to shoehorn that one into casual conversation or a blog post!
End of the holidays
April 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on End of the holidays · Life
The school holidays are over now, not that it makes much difference to me because I don’t work in a school, but the rest of the house have been off for two weeks. Last week they all went off camping, leaving me to my own devices for a while. I had a couple of evenings […]
Cleaning up
March 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life
On Saturday there was a “Let’s face it” event in Broadfield, organised by the Christ the Lord church. These events are where groups of residents get together to do something like clear out a pond or tidy up bits of land and the council helps out by supplying the tools for the job, a van […]
No sex please, we’re British
February 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
I see the moral vocal minority have succeeded in getting an application for a sex shop turned down in Worthing. Again.
Liverpool Nativity
December 17th, 2007 · Comments Off on Liverpool Nativity · Life, Music
I had not intended to watch The Liverpool Nativity on BBC Three tonight, and would not have expected to enjoy it even if I did. But I did, and I did.
Tags: Immigration·Religion·TV
Stuffed
November 25th, 2007 · Comments Off on Stuffed · Life
Today is a special day in the Sikh calendar. I’m not sure of the details – I think its Guru Nanak’s birthday or something like that – but I know its a big deal. One of my work colleagues invited me down to the gurdwara to see what goes on, and so we went there […]
Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks
August 30th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Life
I have just finished reading Christopher Brookmyre’s new book The Atttack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks and what a book it is. The book is dedicated to James Randi and Richard Dawkins, which for many will be recommendation enough. As a firm fan of Brookmyre and especially his character Jack Parlabane, the cat-burgling crime reporter […]
Halal
August 28th, 2007 · Comments Off on Halal · Life, Work
Today I learned a little bit about halal. Specifically I learned about something which I hadn’t even considered before. Even those of us who don’t know a lot about halal know that it involves animals being slaughtered for food in a particular way. But with muslim countries now being in some cases as removed from […]
