Long, excellent post from Edmund Standing begins:
The white liberal is an unhealthy type of creature that you will undoubtedly have encountered, if not in real life, certainly via the media. By ‘liberal’, I do not mean simply someone who has a generally liberal outlook, in the sense of a ‘live and let [...]
Archive for the ‘religion’ Category
White liberal racism
30 Jul 2010 at 13:19
Peter Risdon
Derangement Syndromes, Liberalism, Politics, religion, totalitarianism
Feel the power
Presumably, Druids will now feel the power of the wooden henge that has been discovered adjacent to Stonehenge, though until now such power has been unnoticed. It’s a bit like the way newly discovered planets became important to astrology, in a way they somehow hadn’t been before.
We do not have red bottoms
An adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism at the University of Illinois has lost his teaching job there, and he claims it is a violation of his academic freedom.
Kenneth Howell was told after the spring semester ended that he would no longer be teaching in the UI’s Department of Religion. The [...]
I believe…
If ever a political advertising campaign were designed to be parodied, it’s this one.
Muslim conversions in UK jails
I’m coming to this a bit late, but there has been some reporting and blog commentary recently about an apparently high level of conversions to Islam in UK jails. There’s nothing new about this. “Converting” to Islam has always been a scam for old lags – a quarter of a century ago, because prison kitchens [...]
Quotes of the day
A wife-basher’s violence would no doubt be less damaging if carried out under medical supervision, but that doesn’t mean our hospitals should feature supervised domestic violence evenings.
From an editorial about Female Genital Mutilation at the Australian Daily Telegraph. In a paraphrase of an older quotation, it ends:
And if people want to play the [...]
Killing Jews
14 May 2010 at 13:56
Peter Risdon
Derangement Syndromes, Middle East, Politics, WTF?, religion, totalitarianism
Here’s part of an exchange between Davod Horowitz and a student from the Muslim Student Association at the University of California, San Diego:
“I am a Jew,” [Horowitz] said. “The head of Hezbollah has said that he hopes that we will gather in Israel so he doesn’t have to hunt us down globally. For [...]
WibbleWatch
Dadeus Grings – crazy name, crazy guy – is a conservative Catholic Archbishop in Brazil. During a Bishops’ conference, he explained that:
“Society today is paedophile, that is the problem. So, people easily fall into it.”
And why is it paedophile? Let me guess..
“When sexuality is trivialized, it’s clear that this is going to affect [...]
Questions to which the answer is always no
While I’m memeing, here’s one I missed while not blogging. Has the Missing Link been found? Here’s a recent one from the Telegraph:
The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this [...]
Deeply-held beliefs
In the context of Gordon Brown’s Bigotbottom scandal, Cranmer had this to say:
Even intelligent commentators seem to think it unarguable that deeply-held beliefs against immigration, homosexuality or some religious beliefs are bigoted.
He writes as though it were a good thing to hold strong beliefs. This is a common error. That someone might have any beliefs [...]