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Well this was bullshit. Vishvapani was disappointed that the author of the ‘Girls (Scream) Aloud’ fan fiction blog didn’t get a conviction for writing about the girl band’s torture and murder. His problem with it is that writing about torture and murder might make those who read it want to actually torture and [...]

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The Turin Shroud, it’s a fake. But it doesn’t half make you think about how shitty people are, so it’s not all bad.

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Lionel thinks a lot about dying. Folk his age tend to do that. He knows that he’s going to cease to exist in his current form, but will continue to exist outside the boundaries of time and space and in some sort of timeless netherworld where he’ll feel all warm and fuzzy. Which [...]

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It’s okay everybody, not to worry, the Religious Right is going to save the Earth. How admirable they are for suddenly agreeing with decades worth of overwhelming scientific evidence.

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The children are going up too fast! And not fast enough! Paul says they should grow up! Jesus says they shouldn’t grow up at all! But won’t anyone think of the children? The sexy, promiscuous, apron string swinging children.

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According to a comment by ‘barriejohn’ over at Platitude of the Day, the Bible (particularly the original Greek) tells Christians not to mourn the dead so much because they’ll get to see them in heaven anyway. Conversely, Billings is all about mourning the dead. He must be accounting for the fact that they’re [...]

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JJ really wanted to drive home the goodness of Christianity and the hope in scripture today. He failed, but he really wanted to try.

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Vishvapani talks in pauses. I imagine it comes from a combination of his calm and ordered mind, honed by years of meditation, and an attempt to speak clearly on the radio. But it sounds almost like he’s speaking in Morse code, like he’s some sort of machine that only has the capacity to [...]

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Billings is trying to persuade us of the benefits of being represented in parliament by politicians who have second jobs (which often pay substantially larger salaries than the handsome salary we already pay them). He says this is good because it stops them from being insulated inside a political bubble (or silo) and [...]

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JJ has been jet-setting across the world on his holidays and is feeling refreshed and reflective after getting to see how the other half live. He was especially pleased by just how religious they all were, and just how angry a letter they’re writing to world leaders in Copenhagen about how unfair all [...]

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Long hiatus. Feels like I’ve been on holiday, only in bed with swollen glands and a head threatening to explode. But anything’s better than Fart for the Day so it feels like I’ve been at the beach. And while I was gone someone in Scotland said ‘here’s a Bible, write what you want [...]