1. Sharia law in UK is 'unavoidable'

Comment #123984 by Mercurius on February 8, 2008 at 4:38 am

It does make you wonder whether it is just to provoke debate but surely one of the main factors in a cohesive democracy has to be the abiding by one set of laws? No matter how much the moderates may say otherwise, Sharia 'Law' is not something we want or need here in the UK. If you want to live under such a 'Law', go to Iran and see how you like the way it is implemented there.

2. Happy Birthday Josh Timonen!

Comment #118851 by Mercurius on January 31, 2008 at 4:36 am

Many happy returns of the day and thanks for making it such a great site!

3. A Letter From Hell

Comment #116050 by Mercurius on January 25, 2008 at 12:00 pm

Can these people actually sink any lower with their abuse? I guess Josh must have remembered his dictaphone (or they have stenographers with strong stomachs and no feelings) as he seemed to still be writing that letter as those 'loving', 'caring' angels removed him from 'heaven'. Yeesh. Pass the sick bag.

4. George Scales, War Hero and Generous Friend of RDFRS

Comment #111587 by Mercurius on January 15, 2008 at 4:21 am

Sir,

Thank you for all your efforts and for being an inspiration. Best wishes for a speedy recovery and I wish you good health and happiness for the future.

Mellanie

5. The OUT Campaign has its own Flea!

Comment #107779 by Mercurius on January 5, 2008 at 9:57 am

"shinning as a light in darkness"

How do you shin, exactly? Littered as per usual with these fleas with AWFUL spelling and grammatical errors. There is such a thing as proper proofreading, y'know...

6. For the Love of Christ

Comment #101885 by Mercurius on December 21, 2007 at 4:24 am

I'm with USA_Limey here, my first thought was he really needs to get laid. But who would want to with such a nutjob?!

7. Nurses Told to Turn Muslims' Beds to Mecca

Comment #93993 by Mercurius on December 4, 2007 at 2:33 pm

It as an almighty waste of time and taxpayers money when surely concentration should be on eradicating superbugs from wards and improving the strained NHS infrastructure.

Hospital staff have enough work to do without kowtowing to the dictates of manmade religions!

8. In the name of God: the Saudi rape victim's tale

Comment #91718 by mercurius on November 29, 2007 at 4:34 am

I would echo the previous posts by toaldingham and gcdavis and urge all UK citizens to sign the petitions at:

http://search.petitions.pm.gov.uk/kbroker/number10/petitions/search.lsim?ha=1157&sc=number10&qt=saudi

This sort of barbarism has no place in the modern world.

9. Downward, Christian soldier

Comment #80807 by Mercurius on October 23, 2007 at 5:05 am

Superb article from the ever eloquent A C Grayling - there are atheists and agnostics in foxholes General, whatever you may wish to think otherwise...

10. Religious education

Comment #71226 by Mercurius on September 18, 2007 at 5:17 am

I have just spent my lunch hour reading the utter drivel that is passing for a curriculum for RE in England. Why are our children still being taught in such a way? They really do describe the STORY of the Ark and Noah as though it actually happened!!! I think there needs to be a serious shift in RE in schools as the current situation does leave carte blanche for fundamentalists to become teachers and indoctrinate impressionable minds in one of the places (school) they should be safe from such tripe. It seems our government bend over backwards to keep the religious voters happy. Newsflash, secular folk vote too and there are more of us than you think...!

11. Enemies of Reason

Comment #65646 by Mercurius on August 25, 2007 at 10:08 am

I swear if I had been interviewing Deepak Chopra my abiity to be polite would have been severely tested. How has this utterly ridiculous man developed such a following with his pseudoscientific gobbledegook?

12. Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour

Comment #59549 by Mercurius on July 29, 2007 at 1:54 pm

I cannot stop myself hoping desparately that at any moment they will all burst out laughing and declare the whole thing to be satire. I'm still waiting and feeling more saddened every minute of watching it.

13. Can the rest of us have our planet back?

Comment #57836 by Mercurius on July 21, 2007 at 1:48 pm

Witty, punchy and very funny. I would like to play it full blast over the shopping centre tannoy next time the salvation army are droning on in the town square!

14. Science of the Soul? 'I Think, Therefore I Am' Is Losing Force

Comment #52805 by Mercurius on June 28, 2007 at 5:46 am

Further to Bluebird's comment on schoolteachers, my five year old niece is learning sign language at school at the moment. She was showing me her newly learnt skill when she suddenly came up with 'God is good to me'. It is very difficult when your own country's education system is undermining your efforts to raise free thinkers.