William Shatner causes me to consider the absurdity whilst contemplating the profundity.
I’m never sure whether he is serious or not. I am also unsure which of these would disturb me most.
Oct302013
Oct162013
Dude, we were totally lied to by our album covers!
What to do with yourself when you’re away from church and off on holiday? Visit a cathedral of course! For the heady price of €1 at Ibiza Cathedral you can see the nice things they stash out the back.
The most interesting thing was a set of paintings showing some interesting medieval folk law intertwined with biblical imagery to produce an epic 70’s album cover!
Here is the whole work.
Look at the fabulous faces within it.
The main protagonist.
The scenes of torture at the back.
The pained expressions of the damned.
Wait. What have we here?
I wonder what this filthy heretic has done or said? Who has he offended?
I love the way in which real people are often painted into ancient scenes. I wonder who this guy was and who he offended.
Now I want to go and listen to some 70’s vinyl. Perhaps some Saxon or some Priest!
Oct122013
David Mitchell on Atheism, Agnosticism and Theism
David Mitchell is one of my favourite comedians. I see quite a bit of myself in him if I’m honest. When people discuss religion in the pub I find myself engaging in a very similar manner by trying to unpick what people are saying and see if there is much within that can be held together rationally. I much prefer his style of engagement to the blinkered sledge hammer of someone like Tim Minchin.
For many years I’ve suspected that David Mitchell was a reasoned agnostic. In this clip he gives a very good account of his position and why he is unconvinced by aggressive atheists.
Sep202013
The Vicar Installed #iOS7
I’ve been avidly following twitter over the last 24 hours as the installation of #iOS7 has taken place at the parish of St Francis. One tweeter was aghast to discover that #iOS7 had replaced the familiar pews with plush red chairs. “I’ve been a worshipper up at Galaxy since that time when the previous vicar played Shine Jesus Shine on his iPod but they should have asked us before they took out the pews down at St Francis”.
One member of Christ The Pilgrim Congregation of the Windows Church of God North tweeted “Of course we don’t have to use #iOS7 in our church because we got rid of all that when we moved to using a windows church. Windows churches don’t even have an operating system. Anyway, #iOS7 is stuffy and boring and crap. We’re a 21st century church”.
Mr Sinjun-Smythe tweeted that “this new fangled #iOS7 is the reason no one comes to church anymore. It was much better in the days when the numbered keys also worked the letters. I know it was harder then but it was a mark of respect for God that you had to press 37 keys to pray ‘praise ye the lord'”. He also spent fifteen minutes talking about how his church still uses a Nokia 3310. They tried a 3330 even though it wasn’t authorised but they soon went back to 3310 as it was the core of the church’s faith.
I’ve got to stop following so many church people on twitter. You guys are hilarious.