Category Archives: religion

A quote from Ken MacLeod with which to start the year

Creation science is a purely destructive enterprise, like comment trolling or wiki vandalism. Its entire impact results from scrawling across the work of real scientists questions and cavils phrased in a manner just scientific-sounding enough to trouble anyone who knows nothing in detail about the field being traduced.

From the excellent Mr MacLeod. Let’s start [...]

A quote from Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker’s screen burn | The Guide | Guardian Unlimited
‘Spirituality’ is what cretins have in place of imagination.

Homophobic Christians

I started writing this post while watching This Week again. This time they were talking, inevitably, about the new equal rights legislation (good legislation; from this government? Amazing.) The Catholic church is trying to have itself made exempt from the new law; and the Church of England has come out alongside it. [...]