It's both cheating and being honest if I say that my main source of new info on the net this past years has been QI, the BBC quiz show hosted by Stephen Fry. Since my cable company decided I could live without BBC 1, I've been forced to watch EastEnders and QI online, and that in turn made me look up all the series I'd missed before I discovered ( Read more... )

I'm actually impressed with myself. I finally managed to collect some of my thoughts on the whole faith vs. belief issue. If you're interested, it's here.

I iz full of teh self doubt right now ( Read more... )

Coolest catholic person evah (save, obviously, Jesus H. Christ): Guy Consolmagno on intelligent life outside earth on the Colbert Report.
I love how Colbert tackles all these religious items with the most disrespect imaginable. It's sooooo funny, and still you always come out of these interviews thinking 'I learned something'.

There's been a new proposal of law to amend the Belgian constitution in regards to our non-existent separation of Church and state. We have religious freedom (the right to be part of a religion, be able to leave that religion, to partake in rituals of that religion and to not be forced to partake in rituals that do not belong to your own religion ( Read more... )

So, like every year, I went to the annual Antwerp Book Fair, and bought too many fucking books. I don't even know how much cash I spent yesterday, but I'll know by the end of this entry, because here are the books I bought:

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (€13,20)
I already have Alice in Wonderland ( Read more... )

I was looking around for some info on Legion which is an upcoming action flick about killer angels and stuff. It just looked cool. I came upon a couple of 'christian blogs' all trashing the movie: from 'oh woe is us for tolerating such heathens!' to 'these people don't know theology'. And I kept thinking: Dude, fiction ( Read more... )

I found this commentary, The New Atheist Movement is Destructive via a link on ets, and I thought it was very interesting.

The author actually describes quite clearly some of my issues with people like Dawkins and Hitchin; as well as showing a very good external understanding of the 'power' of religion. The response, linked to at the bottom, is a ( Read more... )

So, I'm pissed off. Only slightly though, I'm too tired and too caught up in actual problems that I don't have the energy to be actually pissed off. Still. Irritated would be a good word ( Read more... )

Dutch politician Geert Wilders made a short film (about ten minutes) to warn people about the dangers of islam. Since we've all been waiting for it with our breaths held (and no, that wasn't sarcasm), I thought I'd put it up. It's led to some very interesting discussions lately about the limits to freedom of speech, and whether Wilders will be ( Read more... )