Thanks, Ygern - good to be back, and it's really great to see the community as vibrant and motivated as ever. Fair dues to you for the work you're doing administering the forum. You're right, if these were well-balanced people (I won't even require them to be rational people) then this programme wou...

Another charlatan sets up shop:

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment ... 43778.html

As if I wasn't already in paroxysms of wrath after watching that BBC doco.

Care to name the school, mkaobrih?

Wow, I don't watch much TV, but I just got up off the couch after seeing BBC's The Big Silence : Abbot Christopher Jamison, a Benedictine monk, believes that he can teach five ordinary people the value of silent meditation, as practised by monks in monasteries, so they can make it part of their ever...

The Grauniad has published an extract from John McGahern's book Memoir in which he describes how he was fired from his job as a teacher because his book "The Dark" was banned by the Censorship Board . As countmeoutie has noted, "it is technically still legal to fire a teacher in the way that the lat...

...and of course Jesus is the son of God, so I bred the two Jesi together to produce this lovely baby:

Ooh, I couldn't resist: I had to blend the stereotypical jesus with the "real jesus" in Ygern's post above:



cheers
Ben

Regarding "What did our lady look like?": She's always represented as blandly pretty. Iconographers down through the years seem to have independently discovered the attractiveness of the average face.

Personally, no. I do not think churches should be taxed. Why? Taxing them allows them to gain more political and social prowess. It would also make them a more persuasive force when it comes to adding to certain topics, like abortion rights, homosexual rights, marriage rights, contraception and the...