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Giles Fraser

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/ 6 January 2008

More art. More prayer. More holidays

The headlines were grabbed by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’s attack on United States foreign policy. But the deeper point, widely missed, was his attack on Western modernity in general. "There is something about Western modernity which really does eat away at the soul," he said in an interview with the Muslim magazine, <i>Emel</i>, late last year.

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/ 4 June 2007

Not faith, but fanaticism

The college head thinks 95% of us are going to burn in hell. His new deputy believes it’s wrong for women to teach men. Insiders are complaining about an "openly homophobic" atmosphere. A third of the academic staff have resigned. Others are unwilling to speak openly because they fear disciplinary action.

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/ 23 January 2003

Who wants to live for ever?

Beneath the question of whether a nutty sect has actually cloned a baby, lies the more interesting question of why it actually wants to. "The goal is to give humans eternal life through cloning," say the Raelians. You make a clone copy of me and then "download’" my personality into the clone.

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