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I bet he gets in a lot of trouble for this, poor bloke.

A Church of England vicar has said that he is fed up with officiating at cremations where Tina Turner is played as the bodies of people with no hope of resurrection are “popped in the oven”.

The Rev Ed Tomlinson, 35, said he wondered why he bothered as mourners listen to ear-splitting songs and bad poetry during cremations. He feared that his presence at funerals was “pointless” and said he had a hundred better things to do with his time.

I have to say, I actually agree with him. Full story in The Times Online.

Well if Christianity is ever going to prove to people it's not a crock of stupidity then it's not going to get much help from the organisation Living Waters, which has put together a quite astonishing version of Darwin's Origin of the Species.

An entire generation has been (and is being) brainwashed by atheistic evolution, and it's radically changing the culture of our nation.

In an effort to combat this, we produced a special 280-page full color cover edition of Origin of Species, which contains a 50-page introduction. This introduction gives the history of evolution, a timeline of Darwin’s life, Hitler’s undeniable connections to the theory, Darwin’s racism, his disdain for women, and his thoughts on the existence of God. It lists the theory’s many hoaxes, exposes the unscientific belief that nothing created everything, points to the incredible structure of DNA, and the absence of any species-to-species transitional forms.

The mind boggles really. Living Waters is your God so small he needs the protection of liars like you? But who am I to argue? I'll leave that to a much more learned soul, St Augustine -

It often happens that even a non-Christian knows a thing or two about the earth, the sky, the various elements of the world, about the movement and revolution of the stars and even their size and distance, about the nature of animals, shrubs, rocks, and the like, and maintains this knowledge with sure reason and experience. It is offensive and ruinous, something to be avoided at all cost, for a nonbeliever to hear a Christian talking about these things as though with Christian writings as his source, and yet so nonsensically and with such obvious error that the nonbeliever can hardly keep from laughing.

I'm with St Augustine on this. Creationism is just plain laughable. By the way this site is now the top Google search for "dinosaurs didn't exist", which is nice.

Patrick and Kitty have developed their own belief system of late. It seems that there is a dinosaur in the sky who watches over them.

You would think this was rather scary and would lead to many a sleepless night - after all our boy Pat is afraid of next door's cat, every dog in the world, hoovers, lawn mowers, his own shadow and the creepy motorbike man at Westbay.

But you would be wrong, because both twins talk of the dinosaur in the sky with love and reverence. When it rains they are greatly concerned for their dinosaur deity - "oh no, dinosaur in sky get wet" they say.

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Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8076253.stm

Once again evil right wing fundamentalist crazies have proved why abortion should continue to legal. Because a world where they weren't allowed to be born would be a better world.

You can usually rely on Rowan Williams to come up with something bonkers if news is quiet and he's excelled himself now. He says that God isn't going to stop us destroying the planet and ourselves.

God is going to do nothing.

So er...that about wraps it up for God then?

Can the last one out turn the light off please.

I wonder if this Muppet has to believe every advertising slogan plastered across the side of his bus before he'll drive it.

"Boss, does pro-retinol and plumping agent ceramide-R really hold back the first signs of ageing?"

"Just drive the effing bus baldy."

"Yes boss."

A few weeks ago I tapped out a long and very angry blog post. That post, titled "Dear God", was the last desperate death throws of my faith. It was my renunciation of the things that I had believed since 1994. Don't bother looking for the post, it's sat in the system, but I've no intention of making it public.

I said some things that needed to be said out loud - for my own sake. But there's no reason to throw it at you. While many of my posts appear rather angry it's all part of the style of the site, "Dear God" was real anger and it was too ugly to share.

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Oh come on, leave her alone. So the Bishop of Southwark goes batshit crazy on booze in public and keeps his job but this lass gets fired for something private.

And while I can understand why the swinging got her in trouble, I'm surprised about the drinking. Banning the clergy for getting drunk is a one way trip to running out of clergy. Mad, the lot of them.

The nomination of Sarah Palin as the GoP VP candidate in the US presidential election has once again brought the subject of creationism to the fore. When the Republicans cynically decided that what McCain needed in a running mate was someone who owned a vagina I'm not sure they knew what they were letting themselves in for because Palin brings with her a whole heap of down-home nonsense. Like creationism.

One of the most common questions you hear from people discussing creationism is "how can someone intelligent believe in it?" And of course hand-wringing liberals make all kinds of excuses for intelligent people who seemingly believe the world was made in six days 6000 years ago.

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Governors at St Monica's High School in Prestwich have banned the anti-cervical cancer vaccine being administered to pupils at the school.

They believe that the vaccine promotes promiscuity. Because of course, most teenagers abstain from sex for fear of cancer in thirty years later. The stupidity of this position beggars belief.

Let's be clear, this is not the teaching of the Catholic Church. The church itself does not object to the vaccine against the virus that causes 70 percent of cervical cancers.

No, it is the idiotic set of governors at the school.

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So Cartmel Veteran what's your position on all the conflict within the Anglican Church right now? With all the battle lines being drawn as different factions fill sandbags and mount their machineguns you must have a position on this possible schism in the church CV?

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A group of people in Suffolk wants to silence church bells. It seems hours of musical ringing has really got their dander up.

I'm not sure they've gone after the right target though. Musical bells played by a group of people are a rather attractive sound that's as English as can be. It's the sound of the nation and interesting hobby for those who wish to make music with friends in such a skilled and physically demanding way.

On the other hand church bells that ring out at various times of day are an anachronism. They had a point when people used to guess the time of day based on how many of their children had died of the black death, but we've got clocks now. And watches. And mobile phones. And cars. And television. And radio.

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Last night Channel 4 aired an interesting and rather unintentionally funny documentary called In God's Name about the danger in Britain of fundamentalist Christians gaining influence and power in the UK political system.

On the whole, while entertaining, David Modell's film failed to prove its hypothesis, though he seemed to think it had. The truth is that the three very sad figures of Christian Voice's Stephen Green, the female Christian parliamentary lobbyist and the rather strange lonely bloke John - all cut rather pathetic figures that were far from powerful.

Stephen Green continued to show why his tiny little group of nutters has failed to achieve anything other than annoying people. He's an insignificant racist twit of the highest order. He believes Islam is from "the pit of Satan" and that when a bird shat on him (to the amusement of Modell) that it was a message from God to stop taking part in the filming.

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