Tag: religion
member name: Ian Thorpe
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December 07, 2007 11:23 AM EST --
I could never quite make my mind up about Will Smith and until now never understood why. He was funny in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and as a stand up and turned in competent performances in films like . . .
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February 28, 2008 12:12 PM EST --
Nothing new from me today as I have a stomach strain and it's playing havoc with my creative module. As many of my friends are guaranteed to have a well formed and well presented argument on almost . . .
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November 10, 2007 11:29 AM EST --
Munching my brunch of scrambled free range eggs on wholemeal bread and sipping my fair trade Orange Juice yesterday, I sumbled upon a TV show in which a “western” Feng Shui expert was . . .
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August 21, 2006 12:41 PM EDT --
My earlier article here, So Who Is Anti Semitic drew the predicted responses from religious right and neo-con commenters, most of whom entirely missed the point (no surprise there) which was that those . . .
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September 17, 2006 12:41 PM EDT --
Was the DOPE (Dear Old Pater Ecclisiasticus) right to say what he did about Islam?
Resoundingly yes, bearing in mind it is only his opinion.
Quite recently we British liberals were involved in fighting . . .
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August 06, 2006 01:17 PM EDT --
Just over a week ago I was branded anti-Semitic for suggesting the Israelis are a gang of murderous war junkies. I was not the only one of course to come under fire, anybody who criticised the acts of . . .
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September 21, 2009 01:35 PM EDT --
No need to read this or comment, I only post here for the links now... This is another skewed news story that was first posted on Boggart Blog my satirical blog on UK news.
It is the . . .
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January 08, 2008 01:04 PM EST --
We heard through one of the nuttier radio stations Mrs. Thorpe tunes into that Tom Cruise is threatening to sue Andrew Morton, an author who specialises is unofficial biographies of the loonier fringe . . .
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August 09, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
After a lifetime of denouncing all things religious, it seems I may be due for a rethink.
Having heard rumours over several weeks to the effect that rent-boy-bothering evangelical preacher Ted Haggard . . .
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June 07, 2006 12:47 PM EDT --
Gay Marriage is getting churchy folk worked up across the pond again I see.
When people of the same gender want to get married it causes a lot of bad feeling all around the English - speaking world . . .
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November 07, 2006 11:22 AM EST --
1 November 2006
Its that time of year again when as a good pagan I should be recovering from my naked romp over Pendle Hill where on Halloween night we meet to cavort around under the . . .
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February 26, 2008 12:07 PM EST --
This week's unlikely star of YouTube is a man whose name is Bull's Tits, who wears a silly hat and is seventy three years old.
Cardinal Diognigi Tettamanzi, Archbishop of Milian, who cuts such . . .
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August 04, 2007 01:10 PM EDT --
An American Evangelical "Rhinestone" Pastor was on tour in Britain a few weeks ago, his mission is to save our stools. Joel Osteen, leader of the independent Lakewood Church (independent, that . . .
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December 14, 2007 01:09 PM EST --
I am always gobsmacked at how each Doomsday Cult can manage to be crazier than the last. The latest, the name of which I forget for the moment, led by a self appointed Messiah called Michael . . .
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December 17, 2007 12:21 PM EST --
This is not Blasphemous, honestly. (Did someone say "Well there's a first for you Ian?" Infamy!)
To help get into the spirit of Christmas I want to tell you about a series . . .
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January 22, 2008 12:32 PM EST --
Rethinking My Beliefs
As readers know I am not at all a religious person. The belief system I find closest to my view of life is Druidism. Now Druids have suffered a lot from the negative spin put . . .
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February 21, 2008 01:00 PM EST --
One of the big news items of last week was the story of the baby about eighteen months old in Tennessee who was carried into the air by a tornado but safely deposited in a nearby field to be found by . . .
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August 16, 2007 11:50 AM EDT --
Those of you who read my articles might be surprised to learn that earlier today I was guesting on a Chistian Radio show for London's Premier Radio station.
Even more strage, the producer Justin Brierley . . .
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November 29, 2007 01:25 PM EST --
OK, I know. That title is just calculated to a certain type of person. But truly the dead can speak to us from the past of things in the present, as I will now prove.
Alakazoo Alakazam! . . .
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April 15, 2006 12:49 PM EDT --
Not long ago a news item appeared about the removal of the Easter Bunny from schools and public buildings as it may offend non - Christians. There were the usual blustering about political correctness . . .
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