Listen / Read This again? Didn’t we already do this? CAN’T YOU FUCKERS EVEN COORDINATE YOUR READINGS? I mean, I know you can’t even practise your religion without fracturing into bitching cliques. But, come on, it’s barely a week since David Winter told us to say sorry like we mean it. Can’t you guys start [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Tuesday 2nd June 2009: Canon Lucy Winkett
Listen / Read Winkett says we shouldn’t release information that might put people in danger of being harassed, harmed, or murdered. That’s because she’s so wise.
Wednesday 3rd June 2009: Akhandadhi Das
Listen / Read Being as I’m writing this a day late, I’ve had the opportunity to listen to some of Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo. And if Akhandadhi Das’s three-step spiritual plan to heal the world is anything to go by, Obama certainly made a very utsahastic start in saying some shit that needed to [...]
Thursday 4th June 2009: Rev Dr David Wilkinson
Listen / Read ‘Tank man’ was very brave. Famous people aren’t usually brave. They’re usually reality television stars. Wankers. Christians are better than that. Christians who sell nice coffee from their attic are brave like ‘tank man’. People who turn selling nice coffee into a viable commercial enterprise and make it all cool and stuff [...]
Friday 5th June 2009: Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
Listen / Read Why do people fight over their differences, such as religion, for instance? Hmm, shall we look to God for the answer…? No, not today. In answering this question, the Chief Rabbi prefers too look to science for the answer. It’s all about the neurology that people kill each other and themselves over [...]
Saturday 6th June 2009: Rev Joel Edwards
Listen / Read I know I ask this question fairly regularly, but, what exactly was all this about? He likes war films. But he’d never want to actually go to war because it’s so horrific. But what’s good about war is that people get to die in the name of being BFFs. Until they die. [...]
Monday 8th June 2009: Rev Dr Colin Morris
Listen / Read Politics doesn’t control every aspect of our lives. We still like to hug and fuck and be frightened of popping our clogs. Oh and search for God. The search for God goes way back. They still haven’t found the bugger.
What I hate more than the BNP
Being as I haven’t found myself saying anything worthwhile of late, here are my thoughts on the BNP’s electoral success.
Tuesday 9th June 2009: Rt Rev Tom Butler
Listen / Read For the love of democracy can we please get the Lord Bishop fucks out of the House of Lords already? They’re opposing humane acts of mercy in MY parliament, and I sure as sweet holy fuck didn’t give them the mandate to do so.
Wednesday 10th June 2009: Dr Mona Siddiqui
Listen / Read This was mostly filler. The majority of the reading was spent saying how important frilly words are, illustrated by the use of some frilly words.
Thursday 11th June 2009: Rev Dr David Wilkinson
Listen / Read Kaká. Again. Last time it was Lord Harries telling us how happy he was that Kaká didn’t take the £500k per week offered by Manchester City because he “preferred to stay in a place where he knows his family is happy, and where he is loved by his team-mates and the fans”. [...]
Friday 12th June 2009: Rev John Bell
Listen / Read Fuck it. I’m bored. I’ll try agreeing with him for once. I think the sheer volume of music consumption and our exponentially increased technological capacity to access it has perhaps changed the way many listeners enjoy music. Perhaps some of us don’t absorb music like we used to, and perhaps that is [...]
Saturday 13th June 2009: Rev Joel Edwards
Listen / Read If only we could convince children to believe that God uses them as signposts to a better world, then perhaps they’d stop killing each other and point us in the right direction. Preferably away from their murderous mitts.
Monday 15th June 2009: Rev Colin Morris
Listen / Read I find Colin Morris’ speaking style really irritating. I’m not sure how to process his thoughts today either. The Iranian leadership has isolated itself off from the world in some ways, yes, but not quite in the nationalistic/racial sense that Morris speaks of with regards to tendencies in the UK.
Tuesday 16th June 2009: Rt Rev Tom Butler
Listen / Read Hello BBC Religion and Ethics department. I just want to remind you that the quality of Thought for the Day is still abysmal.
Wednesday 17th June 2009: Dr Mona Siddiqui
Listen / Read I might be going soft all of a sudden, but I found this reading to be fairly reasonable and not uninteresting. Religion wise, it’s relevant in relation to an Islamic Republic, and otherwise it actually made me wonder a little. A Thought for the Day actually got me thinking. How about that.
Thursday 18th June 2009: Rev Dr David Wilkinson
Listen / Read We’ve heard this before, of course. From Wilkinson on occasion, as well as from Atkins, who boasts of her physicist brother (or something like that). Others have touched on the subject of religion versus science also. The purpose is to say ‘look, I’m religious, but I don’t believe the Earth is 6,000 [...]
Friday 19th June 2009: Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
Listen / Read I’m glad that society is taking steps towards gender equality in parenting. Perhaps the boost women received from taking on male roles during WWII will be mirrored slightly by the practicalities of a more equal but less buoyant economy. Hopefully this won’t be reversed when unemployment declines. Changing attitudes in this regard [...]
Saturday 20th June 2009: Rev Rob Marshall
Listen / Read Football and religious pontification are two of my least favourite things. So when the two are combined, as they sometimes are by Thought for the Day readers, it can put me right off my keyboard. Sometimes for days.
Monday 22nd June 2009: Rabbi Lionel Blue
Listen / Read Oh, Lionel Blue, you mad old darling delusional rabbi you. He really is the greetings card poem of Thought for the Day speakers. He makes you feel warm and fuzzy and yet completely unconvinced at the same time.
Tuesday 23rd June 2009: Rt Rev Tom Butler
Listen / Read A reasonably considered reading by Butler. I would say this actually qualifies as a Thought for the Day, in that he actually must have thought about it. He was actually there, too, instead of just picking at a topic he has little or no connection to or particular knowledge of and blathering [...]
Wednesday 24th June 2009: Vishvapani
Listen / Read The other week Akhandadhi Das compared his toddler daughter to North Korea, and now Vishvapani is comparing the British public to a crying baby. Indian wisdom seems not to contain a great deal of analogical elegance.
Thursday 25th June 2009: Rev Dr Giles Fraser
Listen / Read Jeez, that’s going to be such a chick flick. Fuck that shit. Even if Alec Baldwin is in it. I would rather have a kidney cut out and stuck in a complete stranger.
Friday 26th June 2009: Catherine Pepinster
Listen / Read Catherine Pepinster thinks our society places too much emphasis on looking attractive and conforming to a homogeneous physical standard. As usual Jesus doesn’t really have anything to do with that, but she pretended he did anyway, as per the requirements of this delightful little slot.
Saturday 27th June 2009: Rev Rob Marshall
Listen / Read Unusually, I actually have an excuse for my late entry, in that I had a delightful bout of flu over the weekend. Not swine flu, but a bit off-putting nonetheless. Having perused the Thought for the Day web page, I’ve found that there’s no text or audio of Saturday’s reading. Apparently it [...]
Monday 29th June 2009: Rabbi Lionel Blue
Listen / Read A little anecdotal reminiscence from Lionel today. He says reading Bede and glimpsing unintentionally exposed lady bits made him an English gentleman and an ideal candidate for the rabbinate.
Tuesday 30th June 2009: Rev Rosemary Lain-Priestly
Listen / Read Northern Ireland should have a South African style Truth and Reconciliation Commission because the Bible is actually just like one big Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Hasn’t she got that slightly backwards, given that the Bible is the very reason why they need to reconcile in the first place?