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The Lord works in barbaric, mythopoetic ways

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Echoing comments made by “conservative” US figures in the aftermath of the New Orleans flooding, several Church of England bishops have made extraordinary comments (for a relatively sane and liberal denomination) blaming the swathe of localized flash flooding across the UK on modern lifestyle, modern power structures, and of course, the modern “witch” (i.e. gay people).

The Telegraph article is worth reading in full — although it’s not clear where, or why these (obviously very recent) comments have been made, perhaps they were solicited individually? — but here are some choice quotes.

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Global warming whodunnit

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

orange snow.jpgOn the very same day that severe storms and tornadoes wreak havoc in Florida, and oily, orange snow with a “pronounced rotten smell” falls across several towns in Sibera, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases a report which very much confirms the mainstream scientific view that global warming is “unequivocably” taking place, and that humans are “very likely” to blame (International Herald Tribune, IPCC summary, photo source).