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Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.
Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?
Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.
The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.
The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.
The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent
I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as bleak. Namely, that it is a meaningless place devoid of deity.
However I'm unwilling simply to repeat the old arguments of the past when, in fact, God is a moving target and is taking all sorts of new shapes and forms. The arguments used against the long bow are not particularly useful when debating nuclear weapons, and the simple arguments against the old model gods are not sufficient when dealing with the likes of Davies et al.
For example, the notion that God didn't exist, doesn't exist but may come into existence through the spread of consciousness throughout the universe is too clever to be pooh-poohed along Bertrand Russell lines. And if I had the time I could give you half a dozen other scientific theologies that will need snappier footwork from the atheist of the future.
Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.
