Category Archives: culture

Earth Day!

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford
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Teenage Exorcists!

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

It was Jung who wrote (in his book on UFOs) that the “Middle Ages…live on merrily”. So they do…and so do their business opportunities. Check out this story from ABC.

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Big Government Rick (Again)

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Here’s Josh Barro writing for Forbes with details of some Santorum plans for wasteful and intrusive government: The Daily Caller flags a little-discussed position paper on Rick Santorum’s campaign website—his pledge to aggressively prosecute those who produce and distribute pornography. … Continue reading →

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Olympic Fun

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner. Well, here’s a shocker, the Saudi theocracy (and like-minded Brunei and Qatar) will not be sending any female athletes to the 2012 Olympics. As Time’s Nina Burleigh points out: It’s not because Saudi women athletes don’t … Continue reading →

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A Natural Phenomenon

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

I’ve no particular enthusiasm for the ‘New Atheists’ (they are far too religious for my tastes), but, in its combination of incoherence and hysteria, this attack on them by Bryan Appleyard (H/T Andrew Sullivan) takes some beating. Here’s an extract … Continue reading →

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Those in Glass Houses

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Britain’s coalition government intends to legalize same-sex marriage. That a high-ranking Roman Catholic priest is opposed to these plans is neither surprise nor drama, but Scotland’s Cardinal Keith O’Brien could, I think, have used better words than these to attack … Continue reading →

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London in the 21st Century

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, here’s Damian Thompson with a terrible story about superstition and murder in contemporary London: A 15-year-old boy is tortured to death for witchcraft. In London. In 2010. And the private reaction of police and social … Continue reading →

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Respecting the law of the land

Posted on February 25, 2012 by David Hume

The story about a Pennsylvania atheist activist who dressed up like a “Muhammad Zombie” has been covered mostly by atheist activists and conservative publications. What seems to have happened is that the victim was dressed up as “Muhammad Zombie” during … Continue reading →

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Against Agape (Restaurants) and All That

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Writing in the Spectator, A.N. Wilson, a former atheist, responds to de Botton: De Botton has little chance of success — either in starting a chain of Agape restaurants, or in persuading bigots on either side of this argument. Meanwhile, … Continue reading →

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Agape at Agape

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Writing in the weekend’s Wall Street Journal, cuddly atheist Alain de Botton offers up a vision of hell with his proposal for a series of atheist “Agape” restaurants (God help us) at which secular folk could come to share in … Continue reading →

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