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What Tim Minchin Can Teach the Church about Jesus

June 28, 2012 in Comedy, Entertainment, People, Religion, Self, Society

Do you ever come across people who randomly pop up in your life and consistently surprise and inspire you?  Tim Minchin does that for me.  I’m not an avid follower of his career, but whenever I spot him on the telly I end up rooted to the spot. He’s amazing. On the last such occasion, he sang a song ‘White Wine in the Sun’.  It’s about Christmas and family and it contained these lyrics: And yes I have all of the usual objections to the miseducation Of children who in tax-exempt institutions are taught to externalise blame And to feel [...]

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Video: Tim Minchin’s Storm (and the Global Atheist Convention)

April 13, 2012 in Current Affairs, Religion, Society

Today, the 2012 Global Atheist Convention commenced in Melbourne. It is one of the largest annual gatherings of atheists and sceptics in the world. I really wish I could have been there, but that would have involved travelling, spending money and being away from my partner R, three things I’m not good at. Well, two things. I’m actually pretty good at spending money. I wanted to write something about what it’s like being an atheist, but in the end I realised that nothing I could say could beat what Tim Minchin says in his poem “Storm”…so here it is. If you’re an Atheist, [...]

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