What are we going to do about UKIP?
Cameron tried calling it names and then pandering to its demands, giving it credibility. Labour tried ignoring it. Unfortunately, the BBC has gone out of its way to give it the oxygen of publicity....
View ArticleAre atheists and left-wingers more intelligent?
Bertrand Russell once said that “the immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in Christian religion”, and research appears to support that remark. Michael Shermer, in ‘How We Believe:...
View ArticleThatcher changed Britain for the worse
Through the Thatcher Major, years, millions of British people were made poor as a matter of policy, while others got rich as a matter of policy. Blair and Brown embraced Thatcherism due to the change...
View ArticleThe jolly sport of foxhunting
Extract below taken from The Whitby Gazette Published on Friday 16 December 2011 10:16 A COUPLE have been devastated after hounds from the Goathland Hunt savaged and killed their cat. Elderly tabby...
View ArticleWhy does God not follow the Golden Rule? His best rule?
Why does God not follow the Golden Rule? His best rule? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_-nHw0_Fos&feature=player_embedded I have a hard time seeing God as --- doing unto others as he would want...
View ArticleIs God a just judge?
Is God a just judge? This speaks of Jesus. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. The above quote shows this as Gods first actual judgement...
View ArticleThe art of debate
Logic was established as a formal discipline by Aristotle, a bit before George Boole. Thinking for yourself has been replaced by The Media, whose received opinion is less trouble. Reason is what I try...
View ArticleMind your language, Minister: 'war' and primary education
It seems we are at war again. Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has declared a “war on illiteracy and innumeracy”. The booty will include 11-year-olds reciting the twelve times table and the attrition,...
View ArticleAre you a child of God? Will you be God’s master or slave?
Are you a child of God? Will you be God’s master or slave? God has always seen us as his children. We are all children of God. Remember that God lets Jesus take control at his right hand. If you are a...
View ArticleJudicial killing: a Quaker view
Not long ago, a friend remarked to me that if anyone were to harm his children, he would be grateful to the law for coming between him and the offender. My friend is a liberal, irenic and civilised...
View ArticleWhy was Adam exempt from the transgression when the transgression was...
Why was Adam exempt from the transgression when the transgression was disobedience? "Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over...
View ArticleDo you agree with Voltaire that “those who can make you believe absurdities...
Most people who follow a particular religion do so because of geography. If you’re born in Iran or Indonesia, the odds are that you’ll be a Muslim. If you’re born in Spain or Italy, you’ll as likely as...
View ArticleDo they understand?
There is one kind of Christianity that never spoken about. This is the one where Christians see that the heart of God is broken because his children “Adam and Eve” chose the fruit of “the tree of the...
View ArticleApostrophes – do they matter?
I remember taking exams at school and invariably at the top of every question paper it would say: “Credit will be given for good English and the orderly presentation of material. Candidates who neglect...
View ArticleChain word game
Here we start off with two words. You take the last word of the previous post to use as the first word of the new post, then you add a second word to it that makes sense. For example, chain word could...
View ArticleReligious fascism or just common sense?
BBC Article You may have heard of the controversy surrounding the advert that was to appear on the side of some buses, which read: 'NOT GAY! Post Gay; Ex-Gay AND Proud. GET OVER IT!' The banning of...
View ArticleWho is the King of the USA?
Who is the king of the U.S.A.? Oh say can you see, --- that you are an oligarchy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-14SllPPLxY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzQYA9Qjsi0 I assume here that most...
View ArticleCrimes committed in the name of religious beliefs still held today
I am currently reading The Portable Atheist, and a chapter outlining the massive crimes committed in the pretence of witch hunting. Truly appalling crimes that rival modern genocides. Perhaps we can...
View ArticleReligion, gay artists and homophobia
I have found that the stance against homosexuality - and in many other "biblical sins" - in almost all of the religions of the world is based on writings in their holy books. As the word that is...
View ArticleWorm hole at centre of Milky Way
ttps://uk.news.yahoo.com/space-time-tunnel-milky-way-161910082.html#CFIrCuM Particularly interesting as Stephen Hawkins abandoned his Black Hole theory almost exactly a year ago . But it does raise...
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