Valuing values

The belief that our moral values are somehow meaningless unless they are enforced upon those who do not share them is imperialist bigotry. Simon Jenkins

It’s always one-sided

The reductive notion that politics is “just” politics, and we can be friends with those who “disagree” with us, doesn’t apply to people who don’t have the privilege of being able to treat politics as abstraction, rather than their everyday, oppressive realities. Politics isn’t something those who are marginalized can just compartmentalize and neatly put

The priest did not like my question about Judas.

Why did Jesus die? Christians believe the death of Jesus is what got us to restore our relationship with God.Jesus died for our sins. He atoned. By his death as a man, he saved all of us.His death was a divine plan to save mankind.God needed Jesus to die.If he didn’t, mankind would not have

Forgiven

My brothers they never went blind for what they did but I may as well haveIn the name of the Father, the Skeptic and the Son I had one more stupid question Forgiven – Alanis Morissette

Victim blaming

In a society that rewards aggression and deceit as the means to success, the problem are always the victims on whom it falls to change. The problem is the people who believe the liars and are called naïve, credulous and are accused of lacking judgment. It’s the victims who are too scared to report their

LGBT+ blood

June 14th was World Blood Donor Day and when it comes the urgent need of blood to save lives, it turns out beggars will be choosers. LGBT+, no thank you. But we’ll have your organs when you’re dead.

From Osaka to Paris

People think the horrendous treatment of Naomi Osaka is just the management at Roland Garros or the French Tennis Federation, that they are merely part of a wider organisation that has nothing to do with France and it’s partly correct. Tennis, like everything is led by white men in their 50s and plus ça change,

Thought – Of coming out

Tis that time of the year, when Jan-Michael Gambill celebrates his birthday and the gay community does what it does best: self-destruct by finding another queer and treating them worse than the rest of society at large. Here are a couple of quotes I read year in year out:He’s a coward for not coming out.He’s

Flat-Earthers

Flat-Earthers are an interesting bunch because they devote so much time and effort denying something that is a mere observation and therefore has no bearing on our lives whatsoever. Whether the Earth is a flat or a sphere, it does not change anything. People who believe it is flat do not pay fewer taxes, they

Of religion and politics

Mixing religion with politics is not the best of ideas on the long term in this day and age of wildly available information because if and when people inevitably get tired, disappointed or hurt by politics, religion gets dragged in. In Spain, the Church which wholeheartedly supported dictator Franco can still hardly shake its bad