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What sort of history are we trying to make?

This week I’ve been hounded by a few friends to purchase a track by Delirious in order to get them to the top of the charts.  This is in an effort to copy the successful social media campaign to get Rage Against The Machine’s Killing in the Name Of to the top of the Christmas [...]

Ugandan homophobia

The latest in a series of articles on the Guardian focuses on a pastor that screened same sex pornography in church in order to build further support for the bill. I spent time with the very same pastor towards the end of my conservative evangelical days….

Are we human?

On the latest Killer’s album (Day and Night) Brandon Flowers asks “are we human or are we dancer[s]“?  I really like this - for me is probing what it is to be human, maybe touching on our spirituality, primal desire and recent lust for knowledge.
People seem to be able to relate.
I expect that maybe 99% [...]

The New Atheist’ Foghorn

As I’ve commented before about fundamentalism - it doesn’t matter who the fundamentalist is.  Whenever an individual or group know beyond reasonable doubt that they are right then they become judgemental and dangerous to the rest of us.  This includes - in no particular order - Islamic, Anarchist, Anti-Capitalist, Socialist, Christian and New Atheist viewpoints.  [...]

Perfectionism vs. Perfectionism

For some reason I’m not perfect.  Oh wait - that’s it, being perfect is impossible.
The textbook definition of perfectionism describes a “refusal to accept any standard short of perfection“.  Wikipedia quotes the more relaxed neo-Aristotelean Thomas Hurka:
This moral theory starts from an account of the good life, or the intrinsically desirable life. And it characterizes this life [...]