The Church has been so evil

Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic.  Post 2.  The Most Evil Institution in History. A Theological Blog 18 – iii - 20   It was only when Richard Dawkins awoke me from my dogmatic slumbers that I began to...

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Facts and Meanings

Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic. Post 6.  Facts and Meanings Most of the humanists I know are contemptuous of religion because they think that science, and only science, can tell us truth.  Only the intellectual rigour of the...

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Yet I still want to be a catholic. Post 5. The chimps and us

Yet I still want to be a Catholic. Post 5. Belief Boxes (2.) The chimps and us We forget how close we are genetically to the chimpanzees, we share over 99% of our genes with them. Our lineage split from theirs...

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Three poems from Sequences

3 iii There is a refinement about Butterworth’s music that words can describe but cannot convey A grief for the passing of England the more poignant for the restraining of tears, None of the pomp of empire you find in...

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