According to last week’s Crawley Observer, Councillor Eade does intend to try and introduce prayers at Crawley council meetings, although whether she will still be so keen now that a similar motion of hers failed to be carried in Adur I don’t know. With that in mind, it was interesting to see this report of […]
Entries Tagged as 'Religion'
The Tory party: only Christians need apply?
July 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Politics
I have just written about how I think one of our councillors is not only a part-time councillor, but one who is probably in breach of some or other code of conduct in Adur and who stood under false pretenses, but there are some interesting minor details to it all. I can thoroughly recommend a […]
Bored of the ring
June 27th, 2007 · Comments Off on Bored of the ring · Politics
The story about the purity ring sort of impinged on the fringes of my consciousness this week, meaning that I saw the headlines and didn’t bother reading the story, expecting it to be nothing more than a remix of the British Airways cross and countless other examples of religious maniacs thwarted in their attempts to […]
Tags: Religion
Crawley: global village?
May 12th, 2007 · Comments Off on Crawley: global village? · Life
The day was already a strange one – no football at all and no Dr. Who – so me going to church just made it all the stranger. Yesterday I had a little note tacked onto a meeting notice for the CCAR committee, saying that there was a ‘Multi-cultural celebration’ at Christ the Lord church […]
Tags: Broadfield·BYCC·Food·Religion
Common ground
March 6th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Life
At last I have found something in the Conservapedia I can agree with. Two things actually, and both in the same article. By their standards its a very long article too, with lots of links (not as many as there could be of course) and even a bibliography at the end (first on the list: […]
Tags: Conservapedia·Religion
Conservapedia
March 1st, 2007 · 6 Comments · Life
How fantastic of the Guardian Unlimited news blog to point us in the direction of a new site called Conservapedia. It really is like April 1st has come a month early. Conservapedia says that it exists because Wikipedia is “biased” and “anti-Christian and anti-American”. On the main page it says: You will much prefer using […]
Tags: Conservapedia·Links·Religion·WTF
Asimov on religion
January 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Asimov on religion · Life
I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov, but I barely scratched the surface – he wrote something like 500 books and I only have about 50 of them. Incidentally, how do you manage to write 500 books? Thats an average or 7 or 8 a year if you start as soon as you […]
The language of evolution
November 7th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Technology
Since I have been feeling in a bit of an iconoclastic mood lately I thought I would have a small pop at Richard Attnborough. A new series of Planet Earth started this week and as you would expect it is compelling viewing and a remarkable acheivement: a nearly perfect collision of the wonder and majesty […]
Religious stereotyping
October 18th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life
There is a story in this week’s Crawley Observer which I really can’t resist referring to. It starts off like this: Christians may not be known for their sense of humour – but that could all be about to change if one Horley preacher gets his way. Hello? I am not a Christian, but if […]
Tags: Comedy·Local Papers·Religion
Thought for the day
October 10th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
Seeing a comment in a reader’s review of Richard Dawkins’ new book, The God Delusion, over at Amazon made me think… Wouldn’t it be cool if some organisation, a sort of anti-Gideons, went round placing copies in hotel rooms. Or copies of Bertrand Russell. Only a tenner at Amazon. I am tempted, despite feeling a […]
