Category Archives: revealed truth

Evidence

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Charles Lambert

A couple of nights ago, while reporting in its usual brown-nosing way on Ratzinger’s visit to France, Italy’s TG2, the state-run evening news programme, talked about the ‘appearance’ of the Madonna at Lourdes. Except that, the way it was said, … Continue reading →

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Business

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Charles Lambert

An amusing, if slightly chilling, story from today’s Guardian. The headline? Pilot restrained after ‘talking to God’ on flight to Heathrow. At first I thought the pilot was under the impression that God was actually on the plane with him, … Continue reading →

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Facts

Posted on January 1, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Let’s start the year with a fanfare for rationalism. World-class scientists were asked what, if anything, had changed their minds by John Brockman, a New York literary agent and the man behind the site, Edge. All of them confessed, for … Continue reading →

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Knock, knock, who’s there?

Posted on October 27, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Never heard of Sylvia Browne? I hadn’t either before I read this article by Jon Ronson in today’s Guardian Unlimited. Apparently, she’s the most famous psychic in the United States. If you’d like to ask her a question about, say, … Continue reading →

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A mamma, li turchi

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Remember Adnan Oktar? Of course you don’t. He’s the nutter behind the Atlas of Creation, a lavishly produced load of anti-evolution shite mass-mailed throughout Europe, as well as attempts to outlaw Darwinism in his own country and others. You can … Continue reading →

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God hates Lily Tomlin

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Charles Lambert

I’m in England for a few days, enjoying the drizzle and the best that UKTV has to offer. Bit of a glut last night, as I moved from Emmerdale to a programme about a house so dirty the most hygienic … 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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Revealed truths 6

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

From Popbitch (what would we do without it?): This is an excerpt from May 31st, showing an end-of-term performance by the kindergarten class of the Islamic Association in Gaza: Host: Stay with us to watch this performance by the children … Continue reading →

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It must have been quite a week…

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Now, let’s see. Monday, light, Tuesday, space. No, wait a minute. Monday, light, Tuesday, the land and the sky and the oceans. Oh hell. (No, that was later.) And all the things that creep on the surface, etc. Wednesday? Thursday? … Continue reading →

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Revealed truths 5

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Charles Lambert

A Pentecostal teaching assistant in Croydon recently quit her job after refusing to listen to a seven-year-old girl read from a Harry Potter novel on the grounds that the book glorifies witchcraft, described in the Bible as an ‘abomination’. She … Continue reading →

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