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Terry Pratchett sets up TV company | Media | guardian.co.uk CSI: Ankh-Morpork! Yes! It's finally happening!

And apparently, Mansbach and Jackson have another collaboration...

Why not, it might be fun.

As I said before, it's hard to compromise when one side has so much less than the other to give up. Let's... well, in the spirit of the thing, let's have a parable! 1. A man had two servants; we can call them Peter and Bruce, for they are goodly names. 2. And for many years the man bade his...

So I happened to pick up the first volume after seeing the first two seasons of the TV show, and having a week from hell, I figured it would make for light enough reading. And I like it - hopefully not enough to speed through the rest, I like the pace of the TV show and they did some small...

George RR Martin, A Game Of Thrones :stars4: or thereabouts.

Or in the alternative, you could stop trying your damnedest to come up with excuses for hurtful ideas that you claim to disagree with. But it's up to you. I'll be mostly offline for a few days anyway.

Well, thanks for proving my point, I guess.

Actually, at least some Catholics seem perfectly happy to point to Genesis and Leviticus rather than Paul, so while 753C's comment is a good one, in practice a lot of people seem to grasp at any excuse to justify their homophobia. Homosexuality | Catholic Answers Though it's worth noting...

There are plenty of things "commented on" (as in, declared mortal sins) in the Bible that the church has gotten rid of over the years. Things banned on pain of death in the OT, apart from gay sex, include planting crops side by side, wearing clothes of mixed threads, shaving, eating shrimp, and...

Misery on stage, anyone? Stephen King's Misery set for US stage adaptation | Books | guardian.co.uk

Right. Because I don't think you can make that distinction. Religious morals have always adapted to secular morals, and only advanced students of Orwellianism bother to keep two separate systems of right and wrong in their heads at one time. If "religious morals", whether they apply to gay...

Here's almost the entire concert I saw on Friday: Thurston Moore & Mats Gustafsson (Live @ Strand, Stockholm, 21 Sep 2012) - YouTube

I watched Yor: The Hunter From The Future and Flash Gordon ("Sometimes, the air rises above the clouds!") back-to-back on Saturday. I think at one point I laughed so hard I forgot to wipe up the brains that leaked out of my ears in a frantic attempt to escape...

Woah. Looks kind of familiar, doesn't it? Bent Pyramid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia You didn't think it was coincidence that the curiosity launched during the Egyptian revolution last year, did you?

No actually, that is my point. Indoctrinating children to think they have to be intolerant of people who mean them no harm is bad, and if the church has to ease up on it as society's opinions shift - whether that applies to laws or just popular opinion - then that's a good thing. Both sides...

Possibly related to this - is anyone else having the problem where clicking on "Go to last post" for a thread doesn't take you to the last unread post since the last time you logged on, as it used to, but to the last post, period?

I think you misunderstood me, sorry if I was unclear. What I meant was, that if public opinion becoming increasingly tolerant of gay people makes it more difficult for the church to teach children to be intolerant towards gay people, then that's a good thing. And since I can't see how anyone can...

No, it doesn't. Nobody has the religious right to persecute others, and saying so doesn't in itself amount to persecution. To quote a phrase, "my right to swing my fists around end where another person's face begins." AFAIK, nobody's trying to make it illegal to say God hates gays; they just...