Category: Religion

Actor Jim Caviezel has been struck by lightning while playing Jesus in Mel Gibson’s controversial film The Passion Of Christ. The lightning bolt hit Caviezel and the film’s assistant director Jan Michelini while they were filming in a remote location a few hours from Rome. It was the second time Michelini had been hit by…

Top Stories – Reuters Catholic Churches Say Condoms Don’t Stop AIDS – BBC LONDON (Reuters) – The lives of Roman Catholics in some of the countries worst hit by HIV (news – web sites)/AIDS (news – web sites) are being put at even greater risk by advice from their churches that the use of condoms…

Janet Dubé on religion, and prayer in US politics In President Bush’s now notorious phrase “axis of evil”, it is obviously the word evil that suggests he was using a religious idea for political purposes. Axis has scientific meanings in a way evil cannot. Some meanings of axis suggest the phrase axis of evil is…

George Monbiot with a subject debated at great length by myself and Frank over the last week. Worth a look.

Just to clarify, I meant there are two types only who are still fighting. Those baathists who have no future because of their actions under the old regime and foreigners.The mercenary tag is meant in a very broad sense, no-one is fighting Coalition (note: not just American) forces for money. It is clear that there…

Now for my reply to Franks second post. Ok, I think there’s a little bit of “quagmiring” going on here. The original post was about Private Jessica Lynch so I inferred that Gavin was talking about Iraqi soldiers fighting before Baghdad fell. In that case, the “regular” Iraqi army was largely composed of conscripts who…

Frank has responded to my little piece on religion. He has raised some interesting points, with which I will attempt to deal with. To be honest I dont have a problem with the agnostic tag. I have met people who are theists, and I have met people who are atheists. Lots of them. All very…

Jessica Lynch has returned to her home town in Virginia. She mourns the loss of her best friend Lori. What I found interesting was what the Governor had to say: “Our entire state has worn a yellow ribbon around our hearts, God is still in the business of making miracles. One of his miracles came…

Alok Jha and Oliver Burkeman write a lengthy piece in the Guardian’s new Life section today. And they write it on the very interesting subject of creationism. Some interesting goings-on in Atlanta at the moment with the so-called ‘mouse trap argument’. It appears to be a bastardised version of Paley’s Watch argument. I really do…

Ian Black writes an amusing piece as usual in his Inside Europe article. The now long running issue of whether to put a god, or the God, in the European constitution is the subject of his article this week. Of couse, as he says, the ‘F’ stands for Federal, and no that other word as…