Easter’s fools
‘… we obviously spend a lot of time celebrating Christmas and thinking about Christmas, but actually, really, Easter in many ways is the one that counts. Even those of us […]
Category Archives: Religion
Cartoon news
So, I might try and convince (myself) that, during an odds-&-sods-ish week-or-two with much moving about, I decided to sit back, arms folded, and wait to see how reaction evolved. […]
Baroness Warsi: political patsy?
You can’t keep a good zombie argument down, it seems. The grandiosely but confusingly titled Baroness Warsi, ‘Senior Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister for […]
Cristina clear
Sighhhh… This blogging malarkey. What’s the point, eh? The internet is super-saturated with the ‘sound’ of nutters ‘talking’ to themselves in public, under the delusion that they have something to […]
Usury: on the relative ethical acceptability of…
We might sympathise with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s embarrassment and irritation at (the revelation of) the Church of England’s (in-adherence to its own) investment policies. Except it has been here […]
Mitochondrial replacement and the ‘slippery slope’ trope
Ethical arguments are conveniently bracketed under the ‘Slippery Slope’ trope when their empirical and logical predictions are summarily of the form: ‘Acceptance and moral justification of X will inevitably lead […]
JP II is not ‘Great’
So, they still confer sainthoods? In the twenty-first century? I mean, I thought that was a thing of the past! Surely the Catholic Church has moved on enough to dispense […]
So, he’s not infallible, then?
It doesn’t do to make – nor to not question one’s own – assumptions. A few days back as the news of the announcement of the Pope’s resignation hit the […]
Lee Turnpenny 