Category Archives: religion

Religion is the opium of the people

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Andre St, Hackney.

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Silver ring thing: update

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Charles Lambert

More on the Silver Ring Thing Gang. I happened to be reading an article on the new fashion for chastity in the Daily Mail three weeks ago and guess whose name leapt off the page. That’s right, Denise Pfeiffer, knicker … Continue reading →

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First stop: Ireland

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Dublin airport comes as a shock: in a world that’s gone haywire with security measures while fast-tracking anything in a burka—male or female, in YSL knickers or gelignite corsets—an entirely pleasant one. We’re bussed to what would normally be the … Continue reading →

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Taking the good with the bad

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Charles Lambert

I’ve had a particularly trying few days, most of the problems being related to technology and its failings: no land line, no broadband, a mysterious corrupt file message as two days’ work is erased before my eyes and proves irretrievable. … Continue reading →

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Vade retro, empiricism

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

One of the few areas in which fundamentalist Islam seemed to offer a less obscurantist view of the world than fundamentalist Christianity was that of evolution. Alas, no longer. An article in today’s Independent reveals that a bunch of Turkish … Continue reading →

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Going, going, gone….

Posted on July 8, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Encouraging news today, as Eggs Benedict goes all Latin. No, we’re not talking Ricky Martin (Calm down, Eggs!), but the opportunity given the faithful to return to the Latin mass, thrown out at the modernising Second Vatican Council. Now Eggs … Continue reading →

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It’s a load of shite thing

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Sixteen-year-old English schoolgirl Lydia Playfoot has taken her school to court after being refused permission to wear her ‘purity ring’, claiming that it’s a religious symbol, etc. despite the fact that it’s about as historic as a John Holmes vibrating … Continue reading →

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Questions of honour

Posted on June 24, 2007 by Charles Lambert

In a country that sees fit to knight Cliff Rìchard, the decision to give a gong to Salman Rushdie, if only as a nod towards the idea that fiction has at least as much value as Summer Holiday and a … Continue reading →

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Yo! Benedict!

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Charles Lambert

The Vatican hierarchy is notorious for being morally supine in the face of wealth and power. It buried Pinochet with honours and encouraged the Albanian pain fetishist, Mother Teresa, in her quest for photo opportunities with the likes of tin-pot … Continue reading →

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PC vs RC

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Charles Lambert

It’s extraordinary the way the people who complain about political correctness (without which it would still be perfectly acceptable to call a person with Down’s syndrome a Mongol) are the first to get their holy knickers in a twist when … Continue reading →

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