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/ 10 February 2006
God is having to wait while a magistrate makes up his mind. In his courtroom in Viterbo, Italy, Gaetano Mautone has heard opening argument in a preliminary hearing in respect of an allegation made by atheist Luigi Cascioli against Roman Catholic priest Enrico Righi.
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/ 8 February 2006
It will probably surprise many people — some of them agreeably — to know that it is not illegal in Germany to eat a corpse, providing you can find one of course. Last year, Armin Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter after he cut off the penis of a man called Bernd Brandes, the willing partner to an unusual banquet.
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/ 27 January 2006
It is a mouth-watering prospect, undoubtedly the news story of this fledgling year: God, in a human court of law, almost in the shadow of the Vatican, under obligation to prove that he exists. And if he can’t, then no one in Italy will any longer be able to claim to be God’s agent or intermediary, to collect money for his greater glory.
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/ 20 September 2005
The discovery that the deities of ancient Palestine were female ought to be good news for all of humanity, not just women. Even the increasingly beleaguered monotheistic religions might find reason to be pleased, for it gives them opportunity to reinvent a deity that will represent the yin and the yang.
Humanity has been ill-served by Christianity, which was born in deceit — the virgin birth, miracles, the resurrection of the body, the promise of eternal life — and nurtured into life by the totalitarianism of Constantine and his episcopal thought-police. Looking at the best way adults should conduct their lives, Christianity’s days should be numbered, argues Colin Bower.
Two former Durbanites are on an epic motorcycle trip that started in New York 15 months ago and is still far from finished Gavin Foster ‘I was in New York, working on Wall Street, when Noah sent me an e-mail from London, where he was living,” remembers Trevor Sproat. “He suggested that it was time […]