Aggressive secularism
Good post here from Steve.
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They got it right
They really did: PYTHON: Vice-Pope Eric? What is the Catholic position? VICE-POPE: Well I’ve never personally, er… so I wouldn’t… PYTHON: No, no, on sex and marriage. VICE-POPE: Oh. Well our main worry at this stage is intra-marital sex. PYTHON: … Continue reading
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A shortage of virgins
Bad news from Hamas spokesman Ahmad Bahr: It is said that ‘Omar [Ibn Al-Khattab] wished to become a martyr. It is said that one day, ‘Omar addressed the people: “In the Garden of Eden, there is a palace – hear … Continue reading
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What can we do?
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Hawking and God
What accounts for the sort of heartfelt drivel that followed the really rather uncontroversial observation Hawking recently made that current thinking in physics can account for the universe without the need for a creation event or a creator? I suspect … Continue reading
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White liberal racism
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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I believe…
If ever a political advertising campaign were designed to be parodied, it’s this one.
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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 … Continue reading
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