2011/12/02 18:05
The Telegraph recently had an interview with the Pope's astronomer:[Dr Consolmagno] said the characteristics synonymous with having a soul - intelligence, free will, freedom to love and freedom to make decisions may not be unique to humans.“Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has has a soul,’ he said.However machines were unlikely to be smart or human-enough to...
2009/05/04 20:58
Mailund posted a link to an article about attitudes to religion in Denmark, Britain and the US.It's the author's idea that the UK is "somewhere between the United States and Denmark when it comes to religion".I must admit this surprised me a bit. In my experience, although there are possibly relatively more religious people in the UK than in Denmark,...
2012/05/18 23:02
The funeral of my father-in-law, Dougie, took place today.
The ceremony was held at Linn Crematorium at noon and was conducted in a very nice and personal manner by a lady from the Humanist Society Scotland, just the way Dougie would have wanted it. He was always very insistent he didn’t want “any of that religious shite” at his funeral. 
Afterwards we went for refreshments at Cowglen Golf Club, where Dougie spent a very large part of his retirement, and the club had therefore put the flag at half mast in his honour.
There were lots of people at both events, as was fitting for a man as popular as Dougie.
In spite of the horrendous weather, I think the day was a beautiful tribute to the man and his life.
2010/09/05 22:37
We noticed that a potato plant had started growing out of an opening in our composter (or our dalek, as we prefer to call it).When I dug it out, it had grown only one new potato, but it was probably the weirdest-looking spud I had ever seen.It clearly had a face, as can be seen on the photo, but it didn't look anything like Jesus, as you would have expected from all the media stories about people seeing him in...
2009/07/22 23:57
I just read in The Times that the Church of England is now introducing a wedding-cum-baptism ritual.In Denmark that is entirely commonplace, and I mentioned my surprise to Phyllis that this should be anything new.According to her, it is entirely new over here, and the Danish practice is very strange, because the Church is supposed to say that you should...
2008/10/25 23:05
Det er interessant at se Kristendemokraternes formandsudskiftning. Det forekommer mig at være et evigt splittet parti.I begyndelsen af 1990erne, da jeg var ret aktiv i Radikal Ungdom, havde vi et glimrende samarbejde med Kristeligt Folkepartis Ungdom, der var domineret af...
2007/08/19 9:27
There's an article in the Sunday Herald about what it means to be a son/daughter of the manse.Of course I was a son of the manse in Lutheran Denmark, not presbyterian Scotland, but I can still recognise many of the...
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