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Fraser tells us today that as long as religious people stay true to their own traditions they can unite with people of other religious traditions. But that’s naively simplistic isn’t it? Read the rest »
Wednesday 19th November 2008: Rev Dr Giles Fraser
Tuesday 18th November 2008: Rt Rev Tom Butler
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What can be the outcome when individuals give their lives into the hands of a charismatic religious leader who offers certainty and demands mindless obedience? How is it that people can find themselves in such a situation? You really need to listen to today’s reading to believe it, but here’s what he said : Read the rest »
Monday 17th November 2008: Canon David Winter
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I thought I’d watch Panorama before writing today’s Afterthought. Why has Panorama turned into Tonight Without Trevor McDonald? Tense music, shady reconstructions, inappropriately elaborate camera work? A ‘big name’ presenter freezing his nips off in the bitter cold to do a 30 second intro/outro? Why not fully embrace mediocrity and get Tim Vine on to do a few gags as well? Read the rest »
Saturday 15th November 2008: Rev Rob Marshall
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I must confess, I recently wrote an Afterthought after midnight on the day of broadcast and edited the time to 23:59. I only did this once. The other occasion the time was set to 23:59 was a valid occurrence. Still, though it may just have been the once, there was indeed an instance when I didn’t finish up until just after midnight. Today though, I feel I cannot embark on such a heinous lie, such a flamboyant disregard for the temporal truth of the matter. Read the rest »
Friday 14th November 2008: Abdal Hakim Murad
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Is it just me or would Timothy ‘Adbal Hakim Murad’ Winter make a good bond villain? Or perhaps a good Ming the Merciless in a re-make of Flash Gordon? Read the rest »
Thursday 13th November 2008: Anne Crapkins
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It’s not going to be very long at all before I run out of expletives to splice into Atkins’ name. I’ll just have to start cycling them round, much like the Today programme does with Thought for the Day speakers. Today Anne Atkins went for the whole thank-God-for-science shitnugget. You’re intelligent enough to see such nob-logic for what it is, so let me avoid bleeding from my fingertips and type about something that doesn’t make want to vomit out of my earholes. Read the rest »