The Holy Deal
This week, the Pope is on his way to the UK and I Have Been Mostly Thinking About Big Things. Life, death, religion, civilisation, you know the sort of thing. In between cooking dinner, doing my routine work, and watching a bit of rubbish telly to give my brain a break, of course. So what [...]
What in God’s name….
A philistine writes on what’s wrong with today’s religion… I often apologise for my poor education and lack of culture, but for once I’m not going to apologise for the fact that I am appalled at the current brouhaha about Roman Catholicism and what it really stands for, especially in what is thankfully becoming more [...]
Understanding Ramadan
Ramadan has united about 1.5 billion Muslims around the world despite their political, cults, sects differences and disagreement. Ramdan is the holy fasting month in the Muslim lunar calendar that consists of twelve months as below: Image via Wikipedia Muḥarram محرّم (or Muḥarram al Ḥaram) Ṣafar صفر (or Ṣafar al Muzaffar) Rabīʿ al-Awwal (Rabīʿ I) [...]
Insights into Islam part 2
What does Islam say about War? Islam permits fighting in self-defence, in defence of one’s faith, or on the part of those whose basic rights have been violated. It lays down strict rules of combat that include prohibitions against harming civilians and against destroying crops, trees and livestock. Terrorism; indiscriminate killing through means like suicide [...]
390,000 Jedis there are #starwarsday
in the UK, according to the last census. In fact, Brighton was recorded as having the highest proportion of Jedi – with 2.6 percent of the population – and one of them was my own husband, Ryan. (details from Wikipedia, except for the part about Ryan) Image by Official Star Wars Blog via Flickr It [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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