I’ve been a bit quiet on the blogging front of late. Work and so on means that I haven’t had enough time to keep up with blogs, let alone write on my own. I have, though, started making some YouTube videos. They’re not going to win any awards, but I enjoy doing them. You may [...]

Turns out that Christmas is a religious festival. I know, I’m as shocked as you are. Anyway, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in his Christmas address at Canterbury Cathedral, spoke on the theme of dependence. We are in the habit, he said, of thinking of dependence as a bad thing – alcohol dependence, for instance. In [...]

Come on over and listen to me interviewing the fabulous Ariane Sherine – thankyou, Ariane! The Pod Delusion is a podcast about interesting things. From scepticism to lefty liberal things, it’s commentary from a secular, rationalist, ‘Guardianista’, sort of perspective. A bit like From Our Own Correspondent but with more jokes. This week: Ariane Sherine [...]

Sedevacantists are a small minority within Catholicism who hold that Vatican II was illegitimate and so current Popes and the current Catholic church are shams. They base this, as I understand it, on three ideas. Firstly, the changes passed at Vatican II, particularly the removal of the doctrine of Extra ecclesiam nulla salus (nothing saved [...]

Following on from the Atheist Bus Campaign – “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life” – there’s a new billboard campaign with a slightly more political edge. The first one I’ve seen is on the huge advertising hoarding at the Old Street roundabout in London EC1. The text reads “please don’t [...]

On November 5th, 2009, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan entered the Soldier Readiness Centre at Fort Hood, TX, and opened fire with two pistols, killing thirteen and injuring another thirty. It appears that Hasan may have been motivated by his religious beliefs as he reportedly proclaimed ‘Allahu Akbar’ before opening fire. He may also have been [...]

Today, thirtieth September, is apparently Blasphemy Day. It would be quite wrong, on that basis, to call it the two-thousand-and-ninth year of our Lord, so I will call it 2009 CE. Blasphemy comes from the Greek βλαπτω, meaning ‘I injure’ and φημη, reputation. I do not know quite how one can injure the reputation of [...]

From Paulie: As a committed and practising Pastafarian, I’ve been very upset by the recent Atheist Bus project. Those of us that have been touched by His noodly appendage can only be offended and upset by the idiotic claim that ‘there is no god.’ Now, over a pint with Jon Worth – one of the [...]

The BNP think it would be them; they’re running a billboard campaign suggesting that Jesus would vote for the BNP. That’s Jesus Christ – believed by Christians to be the Prince of Peace (Isiaah 9:6) – being used by the BNP – that’s the racist, Nazi, Holocaust-denying, criminal British National Party. I’m guessing this is [...]

Eid mubarak (as today is Eid ul-Fitr) and shana tova (as Rosh Hashanah started yesterday evening). xD.