Heaven – Christians Have Got It Completely Wrong Says Bishop
February 9th, 2008Forget about sitting on a cloud – when you’re dead you are going to work! Hard! The Bishop of Durham is an erudite man and has spent a lot of time studying the texts of his religion, and he’s put some interesting thoughts on the topic of the afterlife (from a Christian perspective) to Time magazine.
As an environmentalist and someone who’s been regularly involved in political activism, one of the big gripes for me is when right wing, evangelical Christians use their religious perspective to justify doing nothing about saving the world…and in some cases to stand back in the hope of armageddon in other countries.
The Bishop of Durham not only says they’re wrong, but if they want to be true to their religion they need to be doing the opposite – protecting the globe and not bringing devastation to Middle Eastern countries being somewhere near the top of the list, as Heaven is not going to be up there – it’s down here.
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2008 – Year Zero For Time Travel
February 9th, 2008First someone suggests the poor scientists at CERN could destroy the universe, now they’re getting the blame for potentially attracting balloon-headed, spindly-bodied future men.
(Thanks to Lizzy Hill for flagging this one up).
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Jack of Ravens, part one of the Kingdom of the Serpent series, is now available in mass-market paperback from Gollancz in the UK.
