Religion Archive

  • Norman Bates and the End of Time

    Norman Bates and the End of Time

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Charles Brickdale suggests that Don Delillo's 'Point Omega' joins a major cultural trend in portraying contemporary civilisation as terminally exhausted.

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  • A Response to ‘The Delusion of Free Will’

    A Response to ‘The Delusion of Free Will’

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
    What Mr Broderick says in his article (or rather, allows Madeleine Bunting to say in hers without any cross-examination) is that free will is an illusion, and that humans are collective beings acting in a cosmos — that this justifies spiritual enquiry, and that Hitchens/Dawkins et al. are nasty for attacking 'god' as the vicious god of the Old Testament when 'god' is just a word used to describe the "infinite and transcendent merging of the individualised sense of awareness with the wider dimension".

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  • The Delusion of Free Will

    The Delusion of Free Will

    Posted on September 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
    Before it gets forgotten, here’s an article by Madeleine Bunting from last Monday’s Guardian. I want to draw attention to it because it is an instance of a mainstream article touching on an obvious fact that almost the entire human race is in denial of, especially the western intelligentsia, and most pertinently secular rationalists.

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  • Strange Fruit

    Strange Fruit

    Posted on June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment
    ‘A poet’s work,’ he answers. ‘To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.’ And if rivers of blood flow from the cuts his verses inflict, then they will nourish him. - Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, p97.

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  • Paradise Lost

    The War in Heaven

    Posted on May 8, 2009 | 4 Comments
    Meanwhile the Adversary of God and Man, Satan with thoughts inflam’d of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and toward the Gates of Hell Explores his solitary flight; sometimes He scours the right-hand coast, sometimes the left, Now shaves with level wing the Deep, then soars Up to the fiery concave tow’ring high. -Paradise Lost, Book ii.

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