One of the central themes of the book “God Wants You Dead” that Paul and I wrote, concerns the conflict between new medical technology and the belief in GOD and a promised afterlife. This is probably why a friend of mine who has read the book (or at least skimmed it – I’m not sure [...]
In the book, “God Wants You Dead,” Paul and I talk about the nature of various religious and political philosophies and conclude that they are all examples of the same sort of ideological beast. Our “proof” for this comes from the ways that such entities compete with each other to occupy the same niches in [...]
Cartoon from the book “God Wants You Dead” by Sean Hastings and Paul Rosenberg. Merry X-mas to all… I am pretty sure that I came up with this image myself, based purely on random collisions of ideas in my skull, in the mid 1990s – but the urban legend of the “Santa Cross” may be [...]
Pope Benedict XVI released his second encyclical letter today, entitled “Spe Salvi” – or “Hope Saves”. This is basically an open letter from the Pope to all Catholics. However, it is not an Ex Cathedra communication, so the views expressed in it are the Pope’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of [...]