I could live anywhere in the world… if it weren’t for Second Valley.   You see: it’s spoilt me for living anywhere else.   Now: before I tell you any more, I have to insist […]

Without wanting to sound overly dramatic, I should be dead.   Curiously, I’m not.   The doctor told me that I had a fifty-fifty chance of seeing last Christmas.   So far, so good! ‘And what […]

The militant atheist, Richard Dawkins, has said on a number of occasions that any God who could cause his son to die a horrible death the pay for the price for the sins […]

In today’s psyche, happiness, as it pertains to me, not you, seems to be the measure of what is “good.”   This is the Epicurean philosophy of twenty-one hundred years ago.   The new ethic […]

The ideological battle between world-views for Australia’s heart is a spiritual battle.   The universe either has meaning, because God made it… or there is no God and we can do what we like.   […]

The “New Atheists”, such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchins’ claim that the New Testament accounts of Jesus are nothing but unreliable ideas passed on like “Chinese whispers” containing nothing but […]