Quote of the day

“Like an ancient galleon that has spent ages at sea, Christianity is encrusted with customs and attitudes acquired on its voyage through the centuries and it is making the tragic mistake of confusing the accidents of theological and cultural history with eternal truth”
Richard Holloway, Doubts and Loves, What is Left of Christianity, p. 7.

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Quote of the day

“[T]he very existence of competing worldviews constitutes a threat for any belief system that claims unique validity. …My point is that no belief system is immune from the dangers inherent to the human propensity to violent worldview-defence, as history from the Inquisition to the gulags sadly shows.”
Carlo Strenger, How the Enlightenment taught us to laugh, [...]

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Don’t blame the humble ‘pig’

I have been busy recently and I did not have time to post. I will be back soon with more ‘reflections’, but before that, a link to this video which reveals “the true origin of the swine flu” landed in my inbox so I thought I would share it here.
Watch it:

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