There will be a Paris edition which will be more fun. But I have to post this.
But before the piccie some background. I am a Quaker warden (for my sins) and part of my responsibility is to look after a stream that runs through our grounds. Well that is disputed. A couple of years [...]
Posts under ‘Christianity’
Things Nick Finds - Cheshire Edition.
What’s happening?
Is this a minor issue in the UK, or is it building into some sort of fuss?
A church has been banned from using a market stall to hold its weekly outreach service following a complaint about “hate-motivated” leaflets published by the group.
The Norwich Reformed Church held a weekly outreach bookstall from the Norwich City Council-owned [...]
In Praise of Islam.
After the “Joseph” post, a post on Islam.
Not in praise of Islam in today’s context (although some people may see some relevant point), but in the context of the world in which it became important and powerful.
This was not the Classical World - the world of Ancient Greece and the Roman Republic. Where people (in [...]
I do not care if Joseph had a long coat of many colours or a long sleeved coat - he was a very naughty man.
Athiests tend to regard religion as unimportant (some athiests are actually obessed with religion - but they are a weird minority of athiests), but actually it is very important.
For example Marxism has long used the Heaven-on-Earth promise (it is a lot older than Marxism - indeed it is often called “the oldest heresy”) and the [...]
Challenging
Emma Alberici is an Australian Broadcasting Commission journalist. Being employed by the ABC she swims in a sea of intellectual conformity, never has her assumptions tested in lunchroom conversations with colleagues, and assumes her opinions are mainstream.
Then she interviews Melvyn Bragg……
Melvyn is a bit of a lefty isn’t he? How about bowling him a couple [...]
“Conservative” philosophy.
“Reason is, and ought to be, the slave of the passions”.
David Hume.
“Reason is the slave of the passions” might be interpreted as a cry of despair - a position that human beings could not control themselves, and are the slaves of urges (either instinctive from our biological evolution, or from environmental experiences - the pointless [...]
The Pragmatist philosopher William James and the Oslo murderer.
According to the Oslo muderer his favourate philosopher was William James.
Of course the ravings of a mass murderer may not be very reliable - but this favouring of William James seems to have gone back quite some time.
Well who was William James?
William James was an American philosopher known (along with Charles Pierce and John Dewey) [...]
The Vatican/The Roman Catholic Church - free enterprise, socialism, or something else?
A little while ago it was anounced that the budgets of the Vatican State and the Papacy (they are counted as two different budgets) were back in balance (after some years of deficits). And this got me thinking about what this institution is - in terms of political economy. And this led to other thoughts [...]
The principle of “anti discrimination” - in practice.
Are you a Christian?
If so you will not be allowed to foster children in Britain - as the courts hold Christianity to be “homophobic” in that it holds homosexual acts to be wrong and Christians (at least if they actually believe in Christainity) will not promote such a “lifestyle” to children. And, of course, the [...]
This kind of thing
One of the problems I’ve found in coming up with stuff to post here is that whenever I read something that I think would be worth linking to or commenting on, I realise that it’s on Samizdata, or EURef, or somewhere else that I know most of this blog’s readers will be familiar with themselves. [...]
Mimimal State or Limited State: Mainly the Scottish Example.
I am a minimal state libertarian (indeed someone with “Tory Anarchist” tendencies - i.e. that in a ideal world, the world is not ideal, I would not like to see a total end to the use of aggressive force stealing the property of people and ordering them about with threats), and like many liberatarians (minimal [...]
A Right Bugger’s Muddle
In a book to be published this week, Benedict XVI said there could be “justified individual cases” in which condoms could be used, softening Rome’s blanket ban on contraception, one of the most controversial issues facing the Church.
“In certain cases, where the intention is to reduce the risk of infection, it can nevertheless be a [...]
The Fist of God
Is this genuine?
The sex act called fisting is a source of confusion and misconceptions for many Christians. This is unfortunate, because it means that many Christian men and women are depriving themselves of what could be the most spiritual sexual experience of their lives. Like anal sex and BDSM, fisting is often mistakenly associated with [...]
