At least, that’s how the statistic was presented to me. Christians more likely to support torture: God must be turning in his grave http://rly.cc/67ANF@bengoldacre Only if you actually look at the research itself, that’s not quite what it’s telling us. For example, there are estimated to be around 2 billion adherents to Christianity (one third [...]

People seemingly have a need to believe in stuff. What it is specifically that they are going around “believing in” seems to be of less importance. It all used to be so simple. In the UK at least, people used to believe in God. Full stop. God, the Bible, Papal infallibility and all that sort [...]

One of the things about being a blogger, and reviewing things here, is that it means that quite often when I am reading something, I find myself bookmarking various pages in the text because I think “if I decide to review this book for my blog, I’ll have to mention this”. After having found about [...]

I’m only asking, because my attention was drawn to an article in the Sun online where a… …ghostly figure was snapped by a holidaymaker on the moors of North Yorkshire — and experts reckon the eerie photo is GENUINE.The Sun: Eerie, by gum Whoo! If you look at the article, there’s an accompanying photograph which [...]

So, today was Pancake Day. Also known in some circles as Shrove Tuesday. Tuesday, because it’s on a Tuesday, and Shrove, because… … it’s a mediæval word for pancake. Naah, actually it refers to receiving absolution for sins (being shriven of them) before Lent. It’s one of those things that I vaguely know because at [...]

A Christian bus driver has refused to drive a bus with an atheist slogan proclaiming “There’s probably no God”.BBC News His bosses are bending over backwards to be nice to him — saying he will only have to drive one of those buses if no others are available. Why? Have non-Christian drivers been permitted to [...]

Some of you may not be aware of the Canadian Foot Phenomenon. In the last year and a half, a number of feet have been found washed up on the beaches of Northern Canada. Yes, feet. As in the sorts of things which people normally keep attached to the bottoms of their legs. We pick [...]

It’s coming up to Christmas time: the time when my kids start asking questions about Santa Claus — “would Santa have seen me being naughty then, Daddy?”, “how long is it now until Santa comes?” and “can we get some jelly babies to leave out for Santa?” I’m quite familiar with the concept of believing [...]

If you like spine-tingling mysteries and chilling tales of terror!!! then this may, or may not be the right book for you. It’s called Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs: The World’s Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved. I wouldn’t necessarily say solved. Or at least not all of them. But the approach Albert Jack has taken [...]

Jesus Christ was not God, and Mary was not a virgin, according to a controversial new book written by an Australian Catholic priest…Father Dresser claims Joseph was Jesus’s father, Mary was not a virgin — and actually had six children — and that the story of the resurrection should not be taken literally. Livenews.com.au Many [...]