We worship you O Monster

Monsters often gain power because whereas normal people want to dig their gardens and walk their dogs and love their wives, the monsters, who have holes instead of hearts, bend every nerve and spend every minute seeking to achieve...

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Aquinas was right. There is no such thing as evil

Aquinas says that evil does not exist, there is only absence of good.  He was right.  What about the Devil with his horns and tail who has terrified religious believers for so long then, roaming the earth seeking whom...

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Who are the rich? And who are the poor?

Who are the rich? People living socially bonded lives with little else than its physical necessities in traditional societies as yet relatively untouched by "being brought out of poverty".  Who are the poor?  Often  socially isolated people living in...

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Light and cabbages

Travelling across the fens last week I was ravished by the colours of the vast fields of cabbages in the sweet late summer light.   It was as if they were lit from the inside.  And indeed they were.  All...

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The Gospels? You couldn’t make it up

The Gospels?  Such great literature you couldn't make it up.  Except it is important that they were made up.  All history contains a kernel of truth enwrapped in the many-coloured cloaks of fiction.  For in the mirror of history...

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Most of us didn’t vote for hard Brexit

Mrs May says her Government seeks to fulfil the mandate given it by the majority of the British people in the Brexit vote.  Looking at what she says on the subject of the single market that isn't exactly the...

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