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It would have been nice if Billings could have expanded a little more on his conclusion. He’d get bad marks if this were an essay, as he offers no explanation as to that final assertion. That’s a D+ I’m afraid, Reverend Doctor. Try harder next time.

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I completely disagree with Lord Harries, obviously. While I do have a soft spot for our Royal family, in the same way I have a soft spot for Thought for the Day, that doesn’t validate them in my mind. Just because the routine familiarity and (ostensibly) harmless quaintness of something might provide some [...]

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6 people trying to make the world a better place with ancient religious wisdom were among nearly 200 people killed by 10 people trying to make the world a better place with ancient religious wisdom.

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If only we had done away with social policy, and made a familiarity with the Bible the only requirement for entry into public office and the civil service, then everything – absolutely everything – would be just fine right now. Children wouldn’t get abused and killed, the economy wouldn’t be crashing, and the [...]

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Personally, I’ve never really understood why there’s any debate over whether or not human rights are universal. They’re not. We invented them. The question is: should they be universal? I tend to think so. Other people take a different view, preferring to bury 13-year-old girls up to their necks and pelt rocks at [...]

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Did you hear the interesting news that the Japanese have invented technology that can record images from dreams? It sounds absolutely fascinating to me because it’s not really very often that I actually remember my dreams, and I always forget those that do briefly linger with me as I wake up. Wouldn’t it [...]

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Tony Blair said – of being openly religious in the British political system – that “people do think you’re a nutter“. So it’s no wonder he stayed religiously reticent while in office. When so many people already think you’re a twat, it’s not really going to help if they think you’re a nutter [...]

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I know that three minutes isn’t a very long time to discuss such things, but Siddiqui is Glasgow University’s Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding, not Professor of Stating the Fucking Obvious. She never offers any insight into how such religious and cultural differences could or should be resolved or reconciled. And [...]

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Oh for fuck’s sake, it’s the Chief Rabbi farting on about fucking faith for the fucking fazillionth time. And this time he’s invoking that bastion of manufactured mediocrity, the X Fuctor, to suggest there’s an undercurrent of latent religiosity waiting burst out of us, cleansing us of our misguided secularism. What does that [...]

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“But do I hear someone asking, what’s the connection between a pregnant woman riding pillion and the Christmas story?” No, I think we can all guess where you’re going with this you patronising poppycockerist.

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We should certainly all be aware that each one of us acts as a role model for others. I try to do my bit to guide people along the righteous path in life.

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And following on from my drunken ramblings of last night, here’s one of those freaky evangelising cocks, here to remind us all what the Bible really says. To hell with all these conceptualising interpretations, to hell with the ordained nitwits who’d have away with donkeys and grandeur. It’s all about PROPHECIES and KINGS [...]

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All the way from Jerusalem then, in a spot of shameless nepotism amongst an array of shameless self-promotion, we have Cardinal Caramac’s brother giving us a rather unexceptional Christian commentary on the Biblical events following the Nativity. What thought did this give me for the day?