tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post1778210105587657007..comments2024-02-13T11:11:28.246+00:00Comments on Bishop Alan’s Blog: Religion in the NewsBishop Alan Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-83533818670092039452009-10-21T10:15:41.725+01:002009-10-21T10:15:41.725+01:00Alan, sorry to be late on this. It was great to me...Alan, sorry to be late on this. It was great to meet you at the Religion and the News conference. It was good to put a face to the blog, as it were. And I very much enjoyed your presentation.<br /><br />I found it a very helpful conference - doubly so now that I have now been appointed to the directorship of the UK Baha'i community's Office of Public Information (this was in the air when we were at the conference, but has now become a reality).<br /><br />Anyway, I hope we'll meet up again at some point.<br /><br />BarneyBarneyhttp://www.leithjb.net/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-11106677925039071852009-10-15T12:17:12.972+01:002009-10-15T12:17:12.972+01:00Well I must say that running St Stephen's Hous...Well I must say that running St Stephen's House feels exactly like trying to drive a Bugatti you can only have serviced by British Leyland.Robin Wardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-8817780174109533102009-10-15T10:41:33.114+01:002009-10-15T10:41:33.114+01:00http://fanniesroom.blogspot.com/2009/10/breakable-...http://fanniesroom.blogspot.com/2009/10/breakable-literal-bible-rule-of-week.html<br /><br />Many of us knew that the OT, along with other texts of "the Book" has innumerable Tales and Rules of Terror for women, but if religious institutions can't come to terms with the points of view expressed by the cited website, amongst many others, the institutions will lose the intellectual integrity and level of adherence they have come to rely upon. Any religion which depends on the subservience of women has ultimately to resort to enforcing poverty, physical restriction, and/or ignorance upon its female population. The media often provide the principal getaround for such women, and indeed for many other disempowered people. Either the Church works with it or it dies. I do, though, have every hope that the Church, arising as it does from an adaptive species, will re-grow in due course, but it may not be easy or the same as it is now.Vinaigrette girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04503157468363143336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-58251467599414034572009-10-14T22:05:27.761+01:002009-10-14T22:05:27.761+01:00The weirder and unexplainable,the betterThe weirder and unexplainable,the betterEccentric Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-43930787565649725452009-10-14T13:55:22.891+01:002009-10-14T13:55:22.891+01:00Seen a recent and very powerful example of this, w...Seen a recent and very powerful example of this, where one very well funded organisation had spent a fortune on what was essentially a hate-video about a particular disability, not least by lying to the parents who had lent footage of their children. They found the footage had been given a voiceover declaring their happy, playing children to be individuals who destroyed families and were worse than anything imaginable.<br /><br />Within 48 hours, pretty much the entire international community for that disability had rallied to post their own websites, blogs and youtube video spoofs of it, and generally make the organisation concerned look like complete berks. They had to remove the original hate-video, pronto.<br /><br />People aren't prepared to put up with rubbish for long now, and they have the means to say so. It can be a considerable force for good.Ann Memmottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-86424556840683885642009-10-14T12:11:35.228+01:002009-10-14T12:11:35.228+01:00Not sure about your reference to The Daily Beast -...Not sure about your reference to <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/" rel="nofollow">The Daily Beast</a> - seems like it is a big success.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287169546184325690noreply@blogger.com