I puzzle a lot over the elements. We know they are differentiated by…

 I puzzle a lot over the elements.  We know that they are differentiated by the number of protons in their atoms: hydrogen has one, zirconium forty, gold seventy-nine, nickel twenty-eight and so on.  Yet how can merely numerical differentiation...

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Born in traditions of organic Burkean homeostasis Tories…

 Born in traditions of organic Burkean homeostasis Tories understand that the condition of conservation is change and pursue it  cynically and ruthlessly.  But Labour can only change by copying Tories.  Their cynicism is handicapped by a pathetically residual idealism.

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I’m amazed at my experience of contemplative prayer.

 I’m amazed at my experience of contemplative prayer.  I find myself in a love affair with the Lord Jesus so intense and compellingly meaningful the idea of abandoning it would be simply ludicrous.  I’m quite intelligent.  I’m reasonably rational. ...

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Get out of my sight vile woman said Jesus showing her the door

I'm distressed and outraged by the Church's excommunication of women who have had abortions. It is true that abortion is one of the most horrible of moral crimes.  How can you kill your own offspring?  How can you depirve...

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At least astrology is more rational than atheism

 Science by definition examines material reality, so if there were an immaterial reality science would not locate it.  It is irrational to say science has not found God, therefore there is no God.   Belief in astrology is more rational...

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Love is an ice cream with a squashed fly in it.

ON THE LEFT BANK After the second world war the cafes on the left bank of the Seine in Paris were at the centre of the new movement of existentialism which was soon to renew the philosophical life of Europe. ...

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I can’t understand why anyone wants to declare John Paul II a saint.

John Paul II was a great man and in many ways a wonderful pope.  His constant denunciation  of war as unthinkable in modern times was really admirable.  If only those fervent Christians Bush and Blair had listened.   Despite his...

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