“Unfortunately, it’s much easier to organize people around fear and hatred than around love. Most people who want to hold onto power view God as vindictive and punitive. Powerful people actually prefer this worldview, because it validates their use of intimidation. Both Catholicism and Protestantism have used the threat of eternal hellfire, which “works” because …
An estimated 4000 babies have now been born with microcephaly, probably as a result of the mothers being infected by the Zika virus. Notwithstanding this the Pope, who is supposed to be so liberal, has said that women exposed to Zika are permitted to use contraception to avoid pregnancy, but only as the least …
“I sympathise more and more with Kingsley Amis’s view that life is too short to read any books that don’t begin with the words ‘A shot rang out’”. (Jonathan Coe, The Guardian) I don’t know about you but life is so earnest that my preference is a fast-paced book with an exciting plot that takes …
A short time ago My wife and I returned from Florida. Those who have done any flying recently will know that the trend towards making the customer do everything himself has extended in spades to airlines. You check yourself in. You pay $25 per checked-in bag, yourself. You take the bag sticker and you …
One effect of Trump’s candidacy in the American elections is the split among self-identifying evangelicals. It seems, according to the Washington Post, that white evangelical Protestants who are working class are more than twice as likely to support Trump than their brother evangelicals with college degrees (15% to 37%). Those who attend religious services infrequently …
