Category Archives: God

theological distinction

I have known for years of the distinction between the God of the philsophers and the God of the believers, but only in Marburg did I manage to express it clearly: The god of the believers couldn’t exist, whereas the … Continue reading Continue reading

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Religion Explained

I have been too busy this weekend to keep this blog up to date, and one of the things that have been keeping me that way is Pascal Boyer’s book Religion Explained. I really think he’s succeeded. Consciousness may yet … Continue reading Continue reading

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Thank God

you can buy this T-shirt in XXL. I think that might cover the target market. (found through TNH ) Continue reading

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there is a god

and I am sorry ever to have doubted this. Andy Bull, whom I knew at the Independent, and who later progressed to deputy editor of the Sunday Express has been busted for child pornography. Expect the court to be crammed … Continue reading Continue reading

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unpatriotic

I’ve always thought this was a myth; but apparently it really happened. I don’t doubt he believes it. Just odd to find he would say it. Update. It turns out it was his father. Still, a pretty remarkable thing to … Continue reading Continue reading

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Truth

Supper with Richard Dawkins last night, after a discussion I had chaired for the British Humanist Association on creationism and what to do about it. I said in my opening remarks that there should be far more Christians in the … Continue reading Continue reading

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2003

Goes downhill from here on … (seen through Dave Barry). Continue reading

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Lord, lord

Lord, lord, lord, lawdy lord (Blind Will McTell. brokedown angel blues). Continue reading

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At last

A “paedophile priest” scandal that can be enjoyed wholeheartedly by pinkos. It has seemd that all the cases of child abuse in the American church were in fact homosexual. Now something much more Swaggertesque has turned up in the files … Continue reading Continue reading

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literary life

Last night to CB2. We took with us the eight-year-old son of friends, who was disgusted to find that his burger tasted of beef, rather than McDonald

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