The tedious ‘new’ atheism

I’m not sure how I came across this article on Canada.com about ‘professional atheist’ Christopher Hitchens, but I was certainly intrigued by the title.
Leonard Stern, writes,
Here’s the problem: The atheists don’t understand that it’s possible to reject scripture as history but still accept it as sacred narrative.
I would say the problem for Christians is that [...]

‘Reggie Perrin’ test will check older workers for signs of mid-life crisis under EU plan

The ideas that the EU control freaks come up with to monitor the people just get crazier – and more sinister.
Every worker over the age of 45 could be forced to undergo ‘Reggie Perrin’ tests to identify those at risk of a mid-life crisis.
Under an EU plan, firms would be ordered to carry out psychological [...]

My Twitter discussion with Ed Miliband

I follow Ed Miliband on Twitter. He is the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
He Twittered,
pls #dontgiveup on a deal in Copenhagen.100pct determined to get ambitious,fair, effective deal…. see edspledge.com for more
So I did.
I tweeted back to him,
Are you absolutely sure that your facts about ‘climate change’ are correct before promising away billions [...]

A True Scotsman™ keeps his Bible in his sporran!

So says major American humanist PZ Myers. What is he fussing about now, I wondered? He has picked up on a post on The Not-Quite-So-Friendly Humanist’s blog:
The Christian Union at the University of Edinburgh have put forward a motion for the student association’s AGM to allow themselves or another organisation to put Bibles in each [...]

It only takes one

These days it only takes one person to change life for hundreds, or even millions of people. I am not talking about a Hitler or Mao, or even a Blair, but the ordinary person in the street with a chip on his shoulder as large as a sack of spuds.
Take the case of the Finnish [...]

Gordon Brown rejects 72,234 pleas to resign

The petition on the Number 10 website seeking signatures to request Gordon Brown’s resignation finally ended last month. The petition read:
There are many reasons why we might want Brown to resign, but rather than having lots of narrow petitions on this topic (most of which have been rejected), I wanted one for all of us.
I [...]

They think it’s all over…

…but it’s not!
The President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, finally gave up his lone struggle and signed the Lisbon Treaty yesterday to downgrade his people and the other 500 million of us essentially to subjects of a new Roman Emperor.
The ‘British’ traitors who have worked so hard to sell our country out to the [...]

Don’t mention the war, or skin colour

A young black couple dining in an Islington restaurant were handed a bill which described them as the black couple
upstairs. They were not amused.
Mr Abraham said: ‘I was outraged. They wouldn’t have written “white couple”.
‘They could have found another way to describe us.
I’m sure they have since. I’m imaging Basil Fawlty trying to describe a [...]