It Is Silly To Call Fat People

To Claim That Science And Religion Pose Different Questions To The World Is Not To Suggest That If The Bones Of Jesus Were Discovered In Palestine, The Pope Should Get Himself Down To The Dole Queue As Fast As Possible. It Is Rather To Claim That While Faith, Rather Like Love, Must Involve Factual Knowledge, It Is Not Reducible To It.

Christian Faith, As I Understand It, Is Not Primarily A Matter Of Signing On For The Proposition That There Exists A Supreme Being, But The Kind Of Commitment Made Manifest By A Human Being At The End Of His Tether, Foundering In Darkness, Pain, And Bewilderment, Who Nevertheless Remains Faithful To The Promise Of A Transformative Love.

People Do Evil Things Because They Are Evil. Some People Are Evil In The Way That Some Things Are Coloured Indigo. They Commit Their Evil Deeds Not To Achieve Some Goal, But Just Because Of The Sort Of People They Are.

If There Are Indeed Any Iron Laws Of History, One Of Them Is Surely That In Any Major Crisis Of The Capitalist System, A Sector Of The Liberal Middle Class Will Shift To The Left, And Then Shift Smartly Back Again Once The Crisis Has Blown Over.

[f]or The Most Part Football These Days Is The Opium Of The People, Not To Speak Of Their Crack Cocaine. Its Icon Is The Impeccably Tory, Slavishly Conformist Beckham. The Reds Are No Longer The Bolsheviks. Nobody Serious About Political Change Can Shirk The Fact That The Game Has To Be Abolished. And Any Political Outfit That Tried It On Would Have About As Much Chance Of Power As The Chief Executive Of Bp Has In Taking Over From Oprah Winfrey.