Posted in Religion by: Alan G
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02 Dec
Looks like Gordon Wilson has got together with 199 friends to launch a campaign against gay marriage. Their petition obviously includes the slippery slope fallacy. You can read about them here indeed Scotland for Marriage is backed by both religious and non-religious groups. It is an expression of the breadth of concern within Scottish society. [...]
Posted in Religion by: Alan G
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01 Sep
Paul Haggis and his battle with Scientology is the subject of a 25,000 word article in the New Yorker. After the last post I published, it helps to clarify the statement about bronze age goat herders. People in the 20th Century are more than capable of coming up with made up bullshit and suckering gullible [...]
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24 Aug
I just caught part of a report on Reporting Scotland on BBC. The Church of Scotland has just released new figures showing a low for membership. The piece was started by showing a trainee minister rearranging chairs in an empty room which was amusingly symbolic. In the short interviews there was mooted explanation behind this [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Religion by: Alan G
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23 Jan
I was sure I had previously written about it here but apparantly not. Before Christmas there was a stooshy in the Courier due to Dundee holding a Winters Light Festival which included turning on the Christmas tree lights among other things as part of the Homecoming Celebration. Rants and raves from the religious and righteous [...]