Colin Bower
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/ 8 February 2006

Kissing cousins and dogs

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

The end of God?

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 Goddess of the Israelites

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.

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/ 5 January 2005

Spread the truth, not the word

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.

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/ 7 July 2000

Easy riders hit the road

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 […]