Two cheers for elves and goblins

 A belief in elves and goblins may be primitive and superstitious but it is more rational than humanism.   At least it recognizes that in the sticks and stones of daily experience there is a further dimension of reality expressing...

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Certainty is the last refuge of the prejudiced

 We hold these truths to be certain for the only evidence we will admit as evidence is that evidence that is evidence for the truths we hold.  Certainty is the last refuge of the  prejudiced.   For we do not...

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Life in Love Lane: Visiting Marjorie

 As usual at about five in the afternoon I go to see Marjorie.  Marjorie is on the brink of ninety years old but her scathing wit and vivid use of English turns these visits from a kindness into a...

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Atheists always invent gods even more fantastic than God

 Atheists always invent gods even more fantastic than God.  Genes ‘purposefully’ direct phenotypes (Dawkins) Mother Nature intended otherwise (Dennett) Dialectical Materialism orders history (Marx) It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world,...

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What would you do if…

What would you do if a whole army of experts came along and told you that unless we quit oil our children and grandchildren will inhabit a devastated earth, much of which will be uninhabitable?  Don't believe them and...

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The Catholic doctrine that the dead are not lost is…

 The Catholic doctrine that the dead are not lost is a great comfort to me.  I yearn to meet them again with a great yearning.  This includes our dead pets, especially our dear cat  Webster.  This could all be...

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Mankind is mesmerised by hell.

Nobody is so irrational as your rationalist.  Mankind’s greatest problem, indeed,  is the Enlightenment.  This is because rationalists  so often refuse to heed the lessons of the science in which they say they so exclusively believe.   We share almost...

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UKIP on immigration or any party for that matter is like…

 UKIP on immigration, or any other party for that matter, is like someone hiding in a cupboard under the stairs when the house is on fire.  If most of the scientists are right, by mid-century parts of the world...

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To believe is by definition to be intellectually uncertain, for…

 To believe is by definition to be intellectually uncertain,  for if you were certain you would not believe you would know.   But atheists do claim to know.  They think that science and logic prove beyond doubt that we live...

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The logic is that as oceans grow warmer there will be more rain and…

The logic is that as the oceans grow warmer there will be more and more rain and worse and worse storms, and the UK is facing the Atlantic.   Already the ground is so saturated in some parts of England...

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