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My Picks for Top Tweets: 23 September 2017
I've been back home for three days now but I've been feeling ghastly and wasn't really up to tweets. I probably could've done it, but that would have meant a delay in my recovery and I had to be well again by today. Why? It's election day in New Zealand and I've never...
My Picks for Top Tweets: 17 September 2017
This will be my last post of tweets for a few days. I'm going to be doing stuff in the real world that means I won't have time. My apologies in advance. The All Blacks won again last night, so New Zealand is happy! I was full of concern at the start of the game, which...
My Picks for Top Tweets: 16 September 2017
With the way the world and social media work today, there are all sorts of major events dominating the tweets. Hundreds of thousands of people in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico are still suffering the effects of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The devastation left in...
My Picks for Top Tweets: 15 September 2017
Despite the plethora of subjects available, I couldn't think of a topic for the homily on today's tweets post. So instead I thought I'd bore you with the workings of my mind. One of the things I do when I'm feeling sorry for myself is wonder what the lives of the...
Donald Trump and the Evangelical Christian Nationalists
Amongst all modern US presidents, Donald Trump stands out for his dishonesty, ignorance, and lack of morality. There's hardly a demographic that he hasn't upset as a result of his boorish behaviour. So you'd think that a group that claims to be the moral compass of...
My Picks for Top Tweets: 14 September 2017
As an atheist, I don't have much time for religion. There are, of course, many believers who are important people in my life. I even have a god-daughter - despite my atheism her parents consider me to be a person who can be a good example to her. That doesn't stop me...
My Picks for Top Tweets: 13 September 2017
Today, the US lost one of its LGBTQ icons, Edie Windsor, who was a champion of marriage equality in that country. There's a short video about her in the Political Tweets section below. However, it's the situation in Australia I want to talk about. Despite being one of...
My Picks for Top Tweets: 12 September 2017
Today's comment was going to be about some New Zealand athletes who have done great things over the last few days. Instead, I will find some tweets to celebrate their achievements and put them below. The reason for that is I've just found out that Eric Bolling's son,...
My Picks for Top Tweets: 11 September 2017
There are tweets aplenty today - so many I've had to cut a few out. I'll keep some of them for tomorrow as I often do though. The big news in the religious world is the pope had an accident in Cartagena today. During a drive-by in the pope-mobile, he was, as usual,...
My Picks for Top Tweets: 10 September 2017
In New Zealand it's tweets about a certain rugby game that are trending on Twitter at the moment, and if you're a rugby fan, things are looking pretty good right now. The All Blacks met the Pumas (Argentina) last night and after a hard fought match, we won 39-22. Los...
My Picks for Top Tweets: 9 September 2017
I've finally done a "proper" post for the first time in a while: 'Is Islam a Feminist Religion' So, there's not much time left today for tweets. It was after 3.30 pm before the post was done, and by then I was badly in need of some lunch! I hadn't had any brekkie...
Is Islam a Feminist Religion?
Short answer: No, Islam is not a feminist religion. There are more and more women who are trying to convince us Islam is feminist. Their logic seems to be they're feminist, they're Muslim, therefore Islam is a feminist religion. But as we all know, correlation doesn't...