Heaven is for sinners

Thought

I was talking to a group of students. “Good people go to hell”, I said. “The only people who go to Heaven are bad people.”

(more…)

The Riddle of Barbara Thiering

Life, Sola Panel

Having offended Moslems by taking the unusual step of stocking The Satanic Verses in its bookshops, the ABC has taken on another of the world’s major religions by screening The Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls on Palm Sunday, April 8. That leaves just Judaism and Buddhism—so watch for documentaries which claim that Buddha was just an overweight incense salesman, and that Moses (whose real name was Chris) lived in the 5th century AD and wrote the entire Old Testament to justify his dislike for sweet and sour pork.

(more…)