5 August 2024
There was a bit of a fuss this week with a scene of Greek gods being said to be blasphemous, poking fun at Da Vinci's last supper. The comparison has presumably been made because people were sitting at a table, in a row (although I note that it's quite difficult to do it any other way!)
25 April 2022
I've written before about how impressed I've been with the good work The Satanic Temple has been doing in the US and other countries, using the irrational fear of Satanism many Christians hold as a tool to push for secularism, and showing that the ability to do good things is not something that is exclusive to Christianity. Sometimes Christians in the US ignore the idea of the separation of church and state, and start up after-school Christian clubs or offer prayers at the opening of legislative sessions. The Satanic Temple will often counter these breaches by demanding the right to equal treatment - asking to open local government meetings with a Satanist prayer, or applying to run an after school Satanic club for kids.
1 May 2001
Even in a secular age, it's hard to surrender the religious habits of old
1 February 1989
During the past few days the world's soothsayers have been trotting out their annual predictions for the year ahead, ranging from massive flooding of low-lying New Zealand to the death of Cuban leader Fidel Castro by swallowing a giant insect. But psychics and stargazers have taken a battering over the accuracy of their predictions — we have been waiting two years for AIDS to claim a world leader for example — with little to commend astral messages.