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Eric Pickles: Britain Still A Christian Nation – Get Over It | Politics | The Guardian
Politically correct intolerance
Pickles changed the law in 2012 to ensure that English parish councils could not face legal challenges for including prayers in public meetings, and accused the last Labour government of "diminishing Christianity" by suggesting that religion and politics could not mix. The…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Every act of pity is a kind of prayer
Dead and naked he looked thinner, feebler somehow. I should’ve pitied him. Even if we never pity them at any other time, and in any other way, we should pity the dead when we look at them, and touch them. Pity is the one part of love that asks for nothing in return and, because…
A small religious fanatic
‘So go on, tell me. What’s he like, that little kid?’ ‘Well, I think he’s some kind of religious fanatic,’ I confided, smiling, as I looked over my shoulder at the sleeping boy. ‘He made me stop three times today, and this evening, so he could say his prayers. I don’t know if…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
The serenity prayer
In this way, we do not empower these problems to control us. We share in the spirit embodied in the Alcoholics Anonymous prayer, “Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot be changed, and the…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Acid outflanking my defenses against religion
I think it must have been ten days or a fortnight after Anna’s cremation—it was an afternoon, I remember—when abruptly I understood what had been happening. In a flash I saw that all of it was an ongoing form of the opening to religion, to Christianity in particular, that I had…
A seventeenth-century prayer as set for a trip
During the past few days I had picked up The Secret Chief again, and I had memorized part of the seventeenth-century prayer that had been Jacob’s preferred “set” for psychedelic work. Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of Thee . . . I am silent; I offer myself in sacrifice; I…