Category Archives: God

Hot Pope gossip

Posted on February 28, 2005 by acb

This is too good not to share: the latest rumour from Rome is that there are two parties contending over the moribund Pope. The Italians want to let him go gracefully; the Poles want to keep him alive for as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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random nutter

Posted on February 28, 2005 by acb

I just stumbled across the finest example of anti-Muslim paranoia you could hope to meet. Hurry up and emigrate! This map is only ten years away. Continue reading →

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The real secret of Fatima

Posted on February 19, 2005 by acb

There is a letter from a nutcase in the Daily Telegraph today. And this is news? you murmur. Well, yes, because it is not about Europe, or gays, or fox-hunting, but the Marian apparitions at Fatima in 1917. The last … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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I’ll stop calling them bigots

Posted on February 5, 2005 by acb

When they stop saying things like this: The Right Rev. Josias Sendegeya, Anglican bishop of Kibungo, Rwanda, and his wife, Dorothee, were in neighboring Burundi during the genocide that took place in their country 10 years ago. Dorothee’s mother and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Oh for the wings of a nut

Posted on February 1, 2005 by acb

Friends in the business have been sending me a fine list of religious reasons for the tsunami. I thought nothing could top Paul Johnson‘s proof, in the Spectator, that the disaster proves the existence of a benevolent God but I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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A choice of lectures

Posted on January 15, 2005 by acb

On Wedensday 22 February, the Darwin Centre at LSE finally restarts, with a lecture by Richard Dawkins. On the same night. Simon Conway Morris is lecturing at St Mary le Bow on his version of Darwinism. Which to attend? Actually, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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A kist of men’s members

Posted on December 28, 2004 by acb

Louise brought this up. Witchcraft, in seventeenth century Scotland, was not an organised professions with certification authorities, Worst Practice committees and the other appurtenances of the modern caring professions. Competence was more informally marked: the witch in this story kept … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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O tempora

Posted on December 15, 2004 by acb

There are people outside this country who still suppose the Times is a serious paper. For their benefit — and just because it’s fun — here’s something I wrote for the CT this afternoon. The national census data on religion … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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cult oddness

Posted on November 30, 2004 by acb

I seem to be chairing a debate on cults at the ICA this Sunday, with Jon Ronson and Eileen Barker. Perhaps, by Sunday, I will seem to have thought of something to say. Continue reading →

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more with the wacky

Posted on November 28, 2004 by acb

Dr Baber complains that I am always passing comments on those wacky Americans.1 Modestly veiled in her comments is a pointer to a really interesting essay about the different ways in which the two Americas think of government. She thinks … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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