It was my day off, I get a discount as a “City Screen” member, so relaxing in front of ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ seemed like a good idea. Some critics have slated it but I wonder what they expected. It is a remake of a 1950s ‘B movie’ so I already knew the [...]
Read full post...Some really interesting news comment at The Christian Institute.
See the following:
Watchdog says Bible quotes are indecent
School moves nativity in favour of Muslim festival
Surveys will question on sexual preference
I will be interested in the results as it was not until the last one that it was discovered that there were fewer homosexuals and lesbians in our [...]
I was recently in a group and conversation turned to films. I said I had enjoyed the latest Bond film. A young lady present said she thought the Bond films, including the recent ones, are all awful. She complained about how the Bond character treats women.
I had to stop and think as I had thought [...]
A group which aims to sideline religion from public life has been given a grant thought to be worth £35,000 by the Equality and Human Rights Commission for its work. The Commission is funding the British Humanist Association (BHA) to run a series of lectures on the place of religion and belief in human rights [...]
Read full post...Star Wars is on TV today and I find I am now in a crisis!
Who are the goodies and who the baddies?
Surely my sympathies should be with the Rebel Alliance no longer. I should now see that the Rebel Alliance are no better than terrorists. So the Death Star was a good idea after all?
The [...]
I arrived home late one night to discover a note on the doormat from my wife. She said there had been a message from someone at the local BBC radio station wondering if I would be willing to be interviewed about swinging. Sounded fun so I sent a text to say I would be willing [...]
Read full post...If there’s one thing we learn from history it’s that we learn nothing from history.
I don’t know how long it would take to read, in one sitting, the history known in the Bible as the Second Book of Kings. It would certainly not take a whole lifetime to read. Yet for anyone who does read [...]
