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British Boots On French Soil ➖The Only Way To Save ‘Bumbling Boris’

Following PM Boris Johnston’s ‘car crash’ CBI speech, its not a visit to Peppa Pig World which will save his premiership, but Boris leading British troops on the sands of Calais in a war against the people traffickers, according to contentious political commentator, Dr John Coulter. Who is really running the country, Labour voters (and even a few Tory backbenchers from the powerful Conservative

A Morning Thought @ 1271

Five Year Old Reda ➖ Murdered By Hate Theology

Anthony McIntyre ✒ During the week an Ian Brady-like member of Islamic State supposedly collapsed in a German court upon learning that he had been sentenced to life after becoming the first monster to be convicted of genocide against the Yazidi in Iraq,Shielding his face behind a folder in court the monster sought to run away from the hideousness of his crimes. It seems the only thing this

Sean Carroll Makes A Point On God's Existence

Sean Carroll ✒ an American theoretical physicist who specializes in quantum mechanics, gravity and cosmology, raises doubts about the reliability of the Bible and the existence of God.

The Evangelical Church Is Breaking Apart

The Atlantic ✒ Christians must reclaim Jesus from his church.By Peter WehnerThe election of the elders of an evangelical church is usually an uncontroversial, even unifying event. But this summer, at an influential megachurch in Northern Virginia, something went badly wrong. A trio of elders didn’t receive 75 percent of the vote, the threshold necessary to be installed.David Platt, a 43-year-old

Don’t Sacrifice The Principle Of Universal Human Rights To Religious Leaders

National Secular Society ✒ A recent report on state-sanctioned killings of 'blasphemers' and 'apostates' suggests re-interpreting Islam as a solution rather than promoting universal human rights. Megan Manson argues this is the wrong approach.Last month Monash University released a report highlighting the appalling atrocities committed due to 'blasphemy' laws.'Killing in the name of God:

Christian Right Attempt To Crush Row V. Wade

Right Wing Watch ✒ ADF Drafted Mississippi’s Abortion Ban to ‘Eradicate’ Roe. SCOTUS Hears the Case Wednesday.Peter Montgomery In January 2018, Right Wing Watch broke the story that lawyers for religious-right legal giant Alliance Defending Freedom bragged at an anti-choice conference that the 15-week abortion ban that had been introduced in Mississippi was based on ADF’s model language. ADF

A Morning Thought @ 1270

Dementia Diaries Part @ VII

Lesley Stock ✒ The Way Forward.DadAfter the fall-out with mum – things gradually got back to normal. I think perhaps one or two of mum’s friends had had a word with her, because she was smiling with dad again, and seemed to be coping better with him than ever. He certainly was in better form and back to his jovial, daft ways. I have come to realise that mum, will always, from here on in, will

Confessions of a Uniformed Ulster Bigot @ II

Brandon Sullivan & Winnie Woods 🔖team up to deconstruct the testimony of a former RUC member.Part Two - From Sectarian Thuggery to Outright TerrorismArmstrong wrote that although him and his colleagues knew who the IRA were, and that they would beat and torture them, they could never convict them. One wonders if this is because in Armstrong’s dysfunctional, abusive, sectarian mind-set,