Reading Time: < 1 minute I thought I would turn one of my previous pieces into video form. This is based on one of the questions in my book The Little Book of Unholy Questions [UK]. Enjoy: Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher Please support by sharing or donating, or both! You can buy me […]
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Guest Post: Word of the Day
Reading Time: 4 minutes This post is from regular commenter Martin Zeichner – thanks muchly, and don’t forget you can submit guest post requests to me through the contact details above. Today, he muses about words, particularly “social”, and in this context, all of the influences on us humans: Anyone who knows me knows that I like to play […]
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Can God Have a Sense of Humour?
Reading Time: < 1 minute In short, no. And I’m of the opinion that this invalidates claims to a meaningful personhood. The idea that we should come to love God in a holy union is therefore even more problematic. I talk about it here: Please like and subscribe to my YouTube channel because, maybe, one year in the far future, […]
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Philosophy Gags
Reading Time: 2 minutes Time to share some philosophical jokes. Here’s my philosophical joke, the only one I remember consistently: A travelling professor enters a philosophy faculty. He sees all the students really pander to and look after this one particular professor, giving him all his needs. He finds this odd and asks one of the students why they […]
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ATP Interviews Jonathan Burrello on Comedy, Cartoons, Religion and Politics. And Pentecostalism!
Reading Time: < 1 minute Another cracking interview here with multi-skilled contributor to Patheos Nonreligious, Jonathan Burrello. He recently contributed to the excellent PNR anthology Atheism in the 21st Century [UK – on super paperback offer now.] Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher
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Left- vs Right-Wing Comedy: Why so Left? Setting the Scene.
Reading Time: 8 minutes There undoubtedly appears to be a prevalence on TV and in the media in general of left-leaning comedy, and a dearth of right-wing, conservative comedy or even Christian comedy. The question, then, is why this is? The answer, to me, comes in three potential forms, and these may or may not be possible concurrently, working […]
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Australia: comedy duo skewers Prime Minister’s Christianity
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ever since Scott Morrison, inset, seized power last month, the godless masses in Australia – one of the least religious countries on the planet – have been asking themselves how they came to be saddled with a Prime Minister who’s a right-wing evangelical numpty. Oh wait … numpties was the word used by Morrison to […]
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Ireland: drive-thru confessional pokes fun at Catholic Church
Reading Time: 2 minutes An enormous drive-thru confessional has been erected in Dublin to coincide with the Pope’s visit to Ireland this weekend – but bookmakers Paddy Power, the company that erected it near Phoenix Park where thousand are due to see the pontiff, clearly did so to mock the Catholic Church. According to this report, a spokesperson for […]
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California media group blasted over 'blasphemous' cartoon
Reading Time: 3 minutes TBC Media, publishers of the The California, has been described as ‘an atheist enterprise’ by a reader who expressed his fury over a ‘deplorable’ Last Supper cartoon. But Jack Balfanz ‘s letter, which said that TBC “has without a doubt totally embraced itself with the rest of the liberal scum media in this country”, got a […]
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'Nazi pug' case: Scottish court finds man guilty of hate crime
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mark Meechan, 30, pictured above with a pug called Buddha, will be sentenced next month after he was found guilty this week of posting a video on YouTube that was ‘anti-semitic and racist in nature’. According to this report, Meechan filmed the dog – his girlfriend’s pet – giving Nazi salutes. It responded to statements such […]